ISOCOLON-PSEUDOPARALLEL  

准同節法 An ISOCOLON which appears parallel but is only approximately so, and only gives a superficial appearance of being so.

Hypernym
  • ISOCOLONREPETITIO of the same number of syllables in successive cola. 節奏對偶法 Rhythmic parallelism.　This is so ubiquitous that it would be pedantic to list all cases. A list of striking instances must suffice.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
    Rhetorical device locations: 11
    • 韓非子 此人主之所以獨擅也， 非人臣之所以得操也
    • 韓非子 內暴虐， 則民產絕 外侵欺 則兵數起
    • 韓非子 道，

      Line three is out of line with the parallelism because it does not refer to two persons.

    • 韓非子 以為近乎， 遊於四極 以為遠乎 常在吾側
    • 道德經 小國以下大國， 則取於大邦
    • 道德經 是謂不爭之德。 是謂用人之力 是謂配天古之極也
    • 論語 故舊不遺， 則民不偷
    • 論語 「苟子之不欲， 雖賞之不竊
    • 論語 小人之德， 草 草上之風
    • 論語 「上好禮， 則民易使也
    • 論語 身中清， 廢中權