PARALLELISM: A RESTATEMENT 73
and
a. b
a'. c
Examples of these are-
Mykrb ynvmdq fvdm
qnyx-yk Mydw hmv
Wherefore did-the-knees receive-me,
And-why the-breasts that I-should-suck (Job iii. 12),
and
yntqzHh hrc
hdlvyk lyH
Anguish hath-seized-me,
Pangs as-of-a-woman-in-travail (Jer. vi. 24),
unless we prefer to treat the former of these
examples on the ground of the differentiation of
the interrogative particles as an example of
a. b. c
a'. c'. d
and the latter example as
a. b
a'2
The latter kind of ambiguity frequently arises.
Further variety is obtained when variations
corresponding to those illustrated under I. and II.
are combined with incomplete parallelism : this
frequently happens, especially when one at least
of the parallel members contains more than two
terms. But before giving illustrations of such
variations it will be convenient to point out that