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That format is called "hyperbaton". As with most weird things in English, blame poetry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaton

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25508/is-employi...

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27420/why-is-xxx...

As is so often the case on HN, the real value is in the comments. Thanks for teaching me a new thing today. Anastrophe is going to be my word o' the day, I think.

And here in the "Forest of Rhetoric" [0], anastrophe is just one of the 433 rhetorical figures currently cataloged, many of them with fun Greek names. You've got well over a year of word o' the day material. Epistrophe is another good one.

[0] http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

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