Its funny how sometimes 'antiquated' English text uses word order that is so similar to German ('When I Was One-and-Twenty'... etc). Sometimes when I read such

Its funny how sometimes 'antiquated' English text uses word order that is so similar to German ('When I Was One-and-Twenty'... etc). Sometimes when I read such stuff, I get the feeling that my English teacher might have marked the sentence as incorrect or 'sounding to German'.