I wrote a paper as a freshman on a poem by Wordsworth, “A slumber did my spirit seal” in which I transposed the subject and object of that line. This sort of thing is much clearer in languages which retain noun cases.

Lol, that was my first reaction too. Funny how much language has changed in about 100 years.

So we all used to speak like Yoda?

This word order was rare and hardly used out of poetry even then, and you would still find more flexible word order in poetry today.