inversions in poetry

[milo]

It looks like Frost's poem "Mowing" is saving my arse once more. The final line in the poem has an inversion in it:

My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.

The inversion is not an inversion of subject/verb, but is an inversion of verb (an infinitive) and object, and is clearly contrary to normal syntax. Without the inversion, it would read:

My long scythe whispered and left to make the hay.

Milo, are you going to tell me that this inversion is not poetic? That it doesn't add an interesting dimension to the poem?

I am probably going to question your ability to read at this point.

Robert and I had our differences - he called me a hack, I called him a hack, whatever. Still, we both knew that scythes don't make hay.

You, on the other hand, don't seem to realize that scythes don't make hay so you miss the excellent wordplay of my old friend Robert, which is unfortunate.

The scythe left the hay to /create/.

I hope you get the joke at least, btw. Robert and I, when we were in the biz, used to say "make hay when the sun shines"