Synchysis

Synchysis

Synchysis is an interlocked word order, in the form A-B-A-B; which often display change and difference. This poetry form was a favorite with Latin poets. They are often employed to demonstrate such change within the event in which they are situated; on occasion, there are synchyses within a poem which were not intended but happened to be written in such a way.

A synchysis may be opposed to chiasmus, which is in the form A-B-B-A.

A line of Latin verse in the form "adjective A - adjective B - verb - noun A - noun B", with the verb in the center (or a corresponding chiastic line, again with the verb in the center), is known as a golden line. An example of this is "aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem", "a golden clasp bound her purple cloak" (Virgil, Aeneid 4.139): the line translates word-by-word as "golden purple bound clasp cloak" (endings on the Latin words indicate their syntactical relationship, where in English word order would do the same job).

Another example in English is "Abraham" Washington "Lincoln" George"


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