the use, esp. for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”
Origin: 1570–80; < L < Gk: transposition, lit., overstepping, deriv. of neut. of hyperbatós, equiv. to hyper-hyper-+ ba- (s. of baínein to walk, step) + -tos verbal adj. suffix; cf. basis
1579, "figure of speech in which the natural order of words or phrases is inverted, especially for the sake of emphasis," from Gk. hyperbaton, lit. "overstepping," from hyper "over" + bainein "to step" (see come).
[hahy-pur-buh-ton] 
bəˌtɒn