Great Regulars: Prison Inmate: Where you said,

"Forget I said I'll leave you never"?

Richard Shelton: What would the normal word order be?

Prison Inmate: "I'll never leave you."

Richard Shelton: OK, "I'll never leave you." That would be the normal word order. Why did he invert it?

Prison Inmate: So it would rhyme.

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Poetry Program Gives Prisoners Unexpected Voice

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