The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib:
But Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
And Amos ix. 2,
Though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them;
And though they climb up into heaven, thence will I bring them down.
The idea, being presented under a different figure, is repeated without producing an effect of tedium or monotony.
What the parallelismus membrorum is to the verse or sentence, that the responsion is to the strophe or discourse.
By slight variations on the responsion two literary forms were evolved to supply an æsthetic want. When two strophes stand in such a relation that the conclusion of the one answers to the beginning of that which succeeds it, the result is the concatenation, which unites two strophes with one another and leads the way from one field of thought to another. Again, if the beginning of one strophe or group of strophes corresponds with the conclusion of the same, the result is the inclusion, the object of which is to emphasise the logical and æsthetic unity of the said strophe or group of strophes.
An example of concatenation may be cited from Isaiah, Chap. i.
One column begins—