inversions in poetry

[milo]

Even though Dale answered my question in the second post, couldn't resist reading the whole thing.  Full of gems it was.    I can't believe "pigist" didn't enter the vernacular, or does that make me pigist to wish it?  I realized what was throwing me was that the oft inverted classical poetry of yore is decked with laurels, so where then lies the harm?  But I will not kowtow to the Normans.  Don't ask me why.  It could have something to do with Robin Hood or Ivanhoe.  Or maybe it's some rebelious Saxon gene handed down from the ancestors.  Does that make me "swineist"?  Anyway, thanks again Ella for dredging this up, it answered the question, then answered it from every other possible angle as well as a few that might not even exist.  I am sated and will not be intentionally inverting in the near future.  
-Quix

Some of these old threads are great fun to read - half for the educational value but also half for the subtle internet warfare.