Hebrew Poetry
Unlike English poetry, and that of many cultures, Hebrew poetry does not rhyme words.  Neither is rhythm or meter often used.  Instead alternate lines of the poem have a related thought. This is called parallelism.  One advantage of this type of poetry is that it is easy to make a translation that keeps the idea or teaching of the original language. That is much more difficult to do if the translation has to make words rhyme or follow a metrical pattern.  Several types of  parallelism can be found in Biblical poetry.These include: