An excellent discussion of this subject to which translators are likely to find access appears in The New Oxford Annotated Bible (RSV), pages 1523–29 (Oxford University Press, new edition, 1977), in an article entitled “Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry”. Also in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 3 (K-Q), pages 829–38 (Abingdon Press, 1962), there is a very useful article entitled “Poetry, Hebrew”. And in the Supplementary Volume of the same publication, pages 669–72 (Abingdon Press, 1976), there is an article with the same title.
