Parallelism

Parallelism from the Greek roots meaning

“Beside one another”,

The comparison of things by placing

Them side by side each other

In poetry, you are an aesthetic device

Emphasizing similarities in

Content, and organizing sounds so precise

And the rhythms through the repeating

Of words, phrases, and patterns of stress

And pronunciations

The poet’s free verse it has caressed

Like that of Walt Whitman’s