Hi Alicia,
Thank you very much for this thread, it is as interesting as it is necessary, especially for eratosphere (if I may be so bold...). I am a new member and keep coming across inversion criticisms within metric and non-metric poems alike. The lines containing the inversions are often the strongest lines, in my opinion, and when they are edited out the poem suffers. Appropriate usage of this literary device should not be eradicated!
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