In this example from Norman MacCaig's poem Sounds of the Day, the 'clatter' appears in the sentence before the subject that is making the sound ('horses'). This use of inversion places more ...

Briefly, a major or minor chord with the 3rd shifted to the bottom (such as D/F#) is a first inversion. Move the 5th to the bottom (D/A, for example) and we have a second inversion. If we were to ...