Let the relation of the words be kept obvious and, consequently,
the thought clear, and in poetry, in impassioned oratory, in excited speech
of any kind, one may deviate widely from this order.
A writer's meaning is never distributed evenly among his words; more of it
lies in some words than in others. Under the influence of strong feeling,
one may move words out of their accustomed place, and, by thus attracting
attention to them, give them additional importance to the reader or hearer.
When any word or phrase in the predicate stands out of its usual place,
appearing either at the front of the sentence or at the end, we have what
we may call the +Transposed Order+. _I dare not venture to go down into the
cabin--Venture to go down into the cabin I dare not. You shall die--Die you
shall. Their names will forever live on the lips of the people--Their names
will, on the lips of the people, forever live_.
When the word or phrase moved to the front carries the verb, or the
principal word of it, before the subject, we have the extreme example of
the transposed order; as, _A yeoman had he. Strange is the magic of a
turban._ The whole of a verb is not placed at the beginning of a
declarative sentence except in poetry; as, _Flashed all their sabers bare_.
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