Editing Hyperbaton (section)

==English usage==
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In English studies, the term "hyperbaton" is defined differently, as "a figure of speech in which the normal order of words is reversed, as in ''cheese I love''" (Collins English Dictionary)<ref>''Collins English Dictionary'' (online) [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hyperbaton "hyperbaton"].</ref> or "a transposition or inversion of idiomatic word order (as ''echoed the hills'' for ''the hills echoed'')" (Merriam-Webster online dictionary).<ref>Merriam-Webster online dictionary [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbaton "hyperbaton"].</ref> Some examples are given below:
* "Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end" — [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'', 4.4, 198.
* "Object there was none.  Passion there was none." — [[Edgar Allan Poe]], ''[[The Tell-Tale Heart]]''.
* "The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; / Yet never a breeze up blew" — [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]''
* "For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, / Seem here no painful inch to gain" — [[Arthur Hugh Clough]], ''Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth''.
* "Arms and the man I sing" — Opening words of [[Virgil]]'s ''Aeneid'', translated by E.&nbsp;F. Taylor (1907).
* "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." — [[Wolcott Gibbs]]'s 1936 parody of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine.
* "Alone with Christ, desolate else, left by mankind."  — [[Lionel Johnson]], The Church of a Dream (1890)