The bicolon, or incomplete tricolon, is standard in Biblical poetry.

Parallelisms of various sorts are the chief rhetorical device of Biblical poetry and in the poetry of many cultures around the world, particularly in oral traditions.

Various rhetorical forms are found in the parallelisms of Biblical poetry.

Michael O'Connor (1978) has observed a similar statistical preference in the case of Biblical Hebrew poetry.

Many of the passages use the patterns of repetition identified by scholars such as Robert Alter and others as being characteristic of Biblical poetry.

Thus, Biblical poetry relies much less on metrical feet to create rhythm, but instead creates rhythm based on much larger sound units of lines, phrases and sentences.

His "Let" verses join creation together as he seemingly writes his own version of Biblical poetry.

Smart's A Song to David is an attempt to bridge poetry written by humans and Biblical poetry.

Biblical poetry, by contrast, emphasized stress.

Merisms are conspicuous features of Biblical poetry.