An Overheard Conversation

[John1865]

Humour in free or irregular verse, excepting haiku, is an impossibility.
A humourous poem demands form, else it's just lame half-funny lines (so why not read a joke book instead?)
Also, word order inversion is an unnatural offence in poetry.

Thanks for the advice, thought your third point is wrong. Case in point:

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (Sonnet 130)

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were, when first your eye I ey'd, (Sonnet 104)


It seems odd to me, then, to consider word inversion an "unnatural offence" to poetry. You are most clearly wrong in this point.