Here is what Lawler says on the figure of chiasm:
Since the chiasm is a figure of great antiquity, shaping the Hebrew mentality according to N.W. Lund and functioning classically as a device suggesting completeness or closure and, in the Petrarchan tradition, as a convention of variety, it would perhaps be naive to read any intensely personal torment into Marvell's agonizing over his mistress's tyranny.
Celestial Pantomime (1979)
Quant à moi, I love chiasms. Chiasms, oxymorons, paradoxes... give an essential bite to any poetry.
