inversions in poetry

[milo]

And, how could I have left Milo crying in the wilderness, for just one line --just one line, written in the last 100 years by a published poet?  Not good or bad -- just published. Since 1915 (was that the year inversion's permit ran out? I had wondered about that one). If I were going to respond now, a poem written by Edith Sitwell might come to mind. It was about the Blitz, in 1940. She was a nutty old girl, but fifteen years later, I had to study the poem in school. It is called - don't laugh - 'Still falls the Rain' . I suppose more moving would be ''Still pissing down, ffs''


 

There have actually been thousands of poems published in the last 100 years with inversions - my quest wasn't to suggest there weren't.  Step 2, after the poem was produced, should have been a nifty analysis of what was accomplished through the use of inversion that qualified its use.

Alas, no one took up the gauntlet.