29 Poetic Forms

Arabic culture developed new poetic forms including rhythm and rhyme. Although today we naturally associate rhythm and rhyme with poetry Biblical poetry uses a poetic a form called “parallelism” where a sentence is repeated with different syntax but with the same meaning. Eventually the Jews of Spain adopted the rhythm and rhyme form of poetic expression.

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