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How poetry reasons with us

Discover Your Roots

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The Different Forms of Poetry in the Bible

The longest chapter in the Psalms is Psalm 119. It's a long acrostic poem where every eight lines, each of the eight lines of each stanza begins with the same letter of the alphabet and works its way from A to Z. lyrical poetry or climactic poetry is also called where it's kind of creating a sense of movement. chiastic chiasm are trickier because sometimes they're natural like they haven't without us thinking about them.

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