It uses rhyme and metre and not infrequently also antithetic structure, but, despite occasional flights into the realm of the poetic, it retains the features of prose without being necessarily prosaic.
Verse 5 of the 15th chapter of Proverbs is an example of a simple antithetic saying: He who spurns his father's discipline is a fool, he who accepts correction is discreet.
Another genre belonging to this category is pianwen ("parallel prose"), characterized by antithetic construction and balanced tonal patterns without the use of rhyme; the term is suggestive of "a team of paired horses," as is implied in the Chinese word pian.
(Ps. 38 1) In antithetic parallelism the second part presents the same idea as the first by way of contrast or negation.
The classical study on Hebrew parallelism was done by Robert Lowth, an 18th-century Anglican bishop, who distinguished three types: synonymous, antithetic, and synthetic.
His poems are as impressive as his poignant antithetic formulations.
The god Seth, who had been an antithetic element in Egyptian religion, came gradually to be proscribed as the god of foreign lands.
He spent one season at Utah State, then six at Brigham Young, where he coached Jimmer Fredette in a high-scoring offense that was antithetic to the pressure defensive style he would use at U.N.L.V.
Justice is antithetic to nuclear weapons and the Iranian rejection of nuclear weapons as a legitimate instrument of warfare should be considered positive and important.
Sir Paul told the committee at the initial hearing that "the idea that we would put agent provocateurs in the crowd is wholly antithetic to everything I have known about policing for the best part of 34 years".
With dadaist lyrics about "the golden talking equine god" and "selling bulge egg tourniquet", Melvins' love for the surreal extends to their record sleeves, many of which exhibit disarmingly cutesy illustrations designed by Osborne's wife Mackie, somehow both appropriate and antithetic to the music within.
