72 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY
Proverbs xv. 9; Job iii. 25, iv. 4, xxxiii. 11;
Canticles ii. 3 c, d, 12.
Occasionally one or other of the compound
parallel phrases is interrupted by the insertion
of another parallel term in the midst of it ; so,
for example, in Psalm vi. 6,
jrcz tvmb Nyx yk
jl hdvy ym lvxwb
For there-is in-death no-remembrance-of-thee;
In-Sheol who shall-praise thee?
death and Sheol are parallel terms, and the phrase
there is no remembrance of thee to the interrogative
phrase, which is equivalent to a negative state-
ment, who shall praise thee? But in the first
line the parallel term is inserted bet1 Teen the two
parts of the parallel phrase.
III
The third main method of introducing variety
into parallelism and avoiding the monotonous
repetition of the same scheme consists in the adop-
tion of various forms of incomplete parallelism.
The variety of effect rendered possible by this
method is immense, except in the shortest
parallels consisting of two terms only : with
these the fundamental variations are reduced
to two, viz.—