John F. Hobbins
jfhobbins@gmail.com
This essay seeks to describe the prosodic regularities which define the way ancient Hebrew poetry works. Building on the description of ancient Hebrew verse offered by Harshav and Alter, a text model is advanced which identifies the shapes and sizes of the prosodic units that characterize ancient Hebrew verse. Regularities are described in terms of a prosodic hierarchy. The description is inscribed within the framework of the prosodic structure hypothesis of Selkirk and other linguists. The phenomenon of enjambment is explored. A rule governing the number of lines a poem normally has is stipulated. Three varieties of ancient Hebrew poetry are distinguished: common, qinah, and mashal. An excursus contains a proposed revision of O’Connor’s description of the syntactic constraints to which ancient Hebrew verse adhered.
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