ABSTRACT
Parallelism exists where two close or adjacent sections of the text are similar. The similarity usually involves one or both of structural similarity, where the sentence structures are similar, and lexical similarity, where the words are similar (or opposite) in meaning. The limit case of similarity is exact repetition, but in most cases of parallelism there is partial exact repetition and partial difference:
so in the agonies of Death, in the anguish of that dissolution, in the sorrows of that valediction, in the irreversableness of that transmigration, I shall have a joy which shall no more evaporate than my soul shall evaporate, a joy that shall passe up and put on a more glorious garment above, and be joy superinvested in glory.
