I've often seen the sentence structure "____ does not a ____ make" which I've now discovered is called hyperbaton.
the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one
— from Dictionary.com
I'm wondering though if it would be considered correct use of English?
Best Answer
Hyperbaton correct is indeed—from the Germanic side of the ancestry of English, a holdover must I'd wager it be—though usually archaic it is considered, and thus poetically and dialectically it is used. To see it with objects quite unusual it is, as in:
Rather more common it becomes when prepositions more involved do themselves become.
And poetry let us not forget:
Inversion of noun and adjective is a form of hyperbaton most common: it describes with force a thirst unquenchable, a hunger insatiable, a passion so wild it moans “word order be damned!”; to bolder wax (and more archaic seem), consider the object to move afore the verb, and thy speech merrily to lilt and gaily prance allow.