Here Follow Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House By Anne Bradstreet

“Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666,” by Anne Bradstreet, uses inversion to accommodate the rhythm of the poem while describing the tragedy of the burning of her house. Inversion is changing the structure and organization of the sentence in order to make the poem flow with its rhyme scheme. For example in Bradstreet’s poem she states, “My pleseant things in ashes lie, And them behold no more shall I.” In a proper sentence, usually the subject should begin the sentence, instead of ending it; therefore, it should be said, “My ashes lie in pleseant things, No more shall I behold them.” Bradstreet switches up the sentences, which is inversion, to make the poem rhyme and flow together. Another example of inversion