It's not just familiar sayings that are reversed in implied chiasmus, but anything that writers want to set in contrast to their central message. That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play. Cleghorn was passionately devoted to social causes and wrote poems to express her rage at social injustice. It's the most powerful example of implied chiasmus I've found. I would like my roses to see you.
Implied chiasmus is a favorite technique of humorists and satirists.
Shot on what looks like an aircraft carrier, the SNL parody features a sailor scrubbing floors, cleaning latrines, and performing other menial duties. It's not just an adventure, it's a job. In 1983, a naval captain named Barney Kelly grounded the USS Enterprise on a sandbar in San Francisco Bay. The grounding of the huge ship was the talk of the town, as people wondered how such a thing could have happened, given the highly trained personnel and their sophisticated equipment. While everyone was wondering how it could have happened, Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a clever San Franciscan named John Bracken described what had happened in a most unusual way.