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That format is called "hyperbaton". As with most weird things in English, blame poetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

That format is called "hyperbaton". As with most weird things in English, blame poetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaton https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25508/is-employing-hyperbaton-correct-in-english https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25508/is-employi... https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27420/why-is-xxxx-doth-not-a-yyyy-make-considered-valid-english https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27420/why-is-xxx...

rootusrootus 5y ago
As is so often the case on HN, the real value is in the comments. Thanks for teaching me a new thing today. Anastrophe is going to be my word o' the day, I think.
- mohn 5y ago
  And here in the "Forest of Rhetoric" [0], anastrophe is just one of the 433 rhetorical figures currently cataloged, many of them with fun Greek names. You've got well over a year of word o' the day material. Epistrophe is another good one. [0] http://rhetoric.byu.edu/ http://rhetoric.byu.edu/