Anastrophe | Word Anastrophe at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

"Came the dawn" is an example of anastrophe.
Into the valley of anastrophe rode the six hundred.
It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a...
In Byron's Don Juan occurs an exemplary anastrophe: "All, when life is new,/Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high ..."

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