According to Donald Parry, the prevalent poetic form of the canon of scripture is not the ode, the lamentation, nor the psalm, but parallelism. . . ."Parallelism is universally recognized as the characteristic feature of biblical Hebrew poetry."
Repetition may be classified as a subcategory of the poetic forms called "parallelism." Repetitive forms are considered a parallelism because, by their unusual repetition of identical words within a short span, it creates a series of thoughts being parallel or connected one to another.
One type of parallelism, the repetition of the disjunctives "either" and "or" or "neither" and "nor" at the beginning of successive sentences is called paradiastole. . . . Ironically, by using disjunctions, the inspired writers caused a junction (rather than a disjunction) or linkage between each succeeding phrase, thus creating parallel lines. . . . Note the use of the disjunctives "neither" and "nor" in 2 Nephi 2:11:
If not so, my first-born in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass,
neither wickedness
neither holiness
nor misery,
neither good
nor bad
Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life
neither death
nor corruption
nor incorruption, happiness
nor misery,
neither sense
nor insensibility
[Donald W. Parry, The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted according to Parallelistic Patterns, F.A.R.M.S., pp. i, xxxv, xxxix]