Parallelism

[David Rawson]

Stefan Diös:
> one characteristic of good rune-whatever-meter is the "parallelism", 
> which is when you say the same thing several times in different ways. 

Vidar Svendsen:
> That is, FYI, the hebrew way of writing poetic texts.

Right you are. I think it's a vestige of the oral tradition,
common to many ancient cultures, where memorization carried the
text forward from one generation to another.