Question on: SS1 Literature - Elements of poetry / poetry devices

The special syntax of poetry used in the line "Africa, my angel mother,

I will carry your sunshine in my heart" is inversion. Inversion is a figure of speech in which the normal order of words in a sentence is reversed. In this case, the poet has inverted the order of the words "Africa" and "my angel mother" to create a more poetic effect.

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