Poem

stanza I stanza II stanza III stanza IV etc. A significant term related to the analysis of verse is STICHOMETRY or, as some prefer, 'lineation'.9 This denotes the segmenting of a text into verse-lines. A guide to marking off lines in Hebrew is the occurrence of pausal forms, as in Job 3,26 , 7. Particularly in the prophetic books where individual poems have often been run together into larger units. It would be an interesting exercise to incorporate terms such as 'canto' and 'cycle' into this...