Is anastrophe (poetic inversion) really a characteristic of "forced poetry"? Anastrophe is a technique in which a writer changes the normal order of words. Many critics online argue that one of the qualities of a "forced poem" is that a poet inverts the words in a poetic line just to make a "proper" fit. Please enlighten me.
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