"Came the dawn" is an example of anastrophe. From LearnThat.org.
Into the valley of anastrophe rode the six hundred. From Wordnik.com. [VERTKRIEG] Reference
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 trick he kept attempting, like dice. From Wordnik.com. [Spring « Unknowing] Reference
In Byron's Don Juan occurs an exemplary anastrophe: "All, when life is new,/Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high ...". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
The intervening clause, kata ` te ` n prote'ran anastrophe ` n, concerning the former conversation, belongs to the verb and not to the following noun. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
Other details of Time's style, including strung-out attributive adjectives (bahuvrihi, to linguists), puns (paronomasia), and inverted word order (anastrophe) are also described in the Introduction, which one could only wish were more detailed. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference
Sorensen and Kennedy developed the “Ask not” anastrophe from similar statements made by JFK during the campaign, which in turn borrowed from Kennedy’s study of the history of political rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [TEAR DOWN THIS WALL] Reference
Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
anastrophe of, 144, 3; 141, 2; 142, 3. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
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