A close parallelism of thought and incident.
T. Warton.
3. Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by
side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight
modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --
At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down
dead.
Judg. v. 27.
Par`al*lel*is"tic (?), a. Of the nature of a parallelism; involving
parallelism.
The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely
lost.
Milman.