Take for instance that very perfect psalm with which the book begins—a poem so complete, so compact, so delicately wrought that it seems like a sonnet. The subject is The Two Paths.
The first part describes the way of the good man. It has three divisions.
The first verse gives a description of his conduct by negatives—telling us what he does not do. There is a triple thought-rhyme here.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor standeth in the way of sinners,
Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
The second verse describes his character positively, with a double thought-rhyme.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord;
And in his law doth he meditate day and night.
The third verse tells us the result of this character and conduct, in a fourfold thought-rhyme.