Lesson 6 | Text Structures: Poetry
Review
There was a lot of content in this lesson! Good job continuing to this point. We hope that this summary will help you use what you’ve learned for the assignment and in the months to come.
What we learned this lesson
Here’s what we learned this lesson about the threefold process of creating a text hierarchy when studying a Hebrew poem:
- Divide lines
- Use cantillation marks
- Follow clauses
- Lines typically contain at least one verbal idea
- Lines contain no more than five words
- Combine lines into stanzas
- Look for stanza signals
- Ellipsis
- Repetition
- Dependence
- Matching
- Mark stanzas
- Add spaces between stanzas
- Indent subordinate lines
- Group stanzas into blocks
- Look for...
- Repeated words and statements across stanzas
- A chiastic structure
- An acrostic structure
