rival conjecture of "aphraates readings"

[Aaron S]

Excerpted from Ruach Qadim: Aramaic Origins of the New Testament:

Semitic poetry uses two main structures. Similar to a stanza in the West, the strophe can be thought of as paragraph or main idea. Within each strophe are smaller verse-like units called stiches. The object then is not so much to be a slave to rhyme (although there are many examples when this extra level is employed), but to have the thoughts in the stiches concord with the intent of the adjacent ones and, consequently, with the strophe as a whole.