The Pentateuch poetry !!?   Surprised at you joe. Beside the narrative, there is civil and religious law, prophecy and yes poetry. But even where poetry is used, say perhaps the parallelism of gen 1v 27, it relates to the historical narrative which runs from creation through to the lives of the patriarchs. One clue of the continuity is the expression.....these are the generations of.....used a number of times.