There is, though, a more subtle form: the grammatical chiasmus. Adjective noun : noun adjective, or as Milton put it in the closing line of Lycidas: ‘Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.’ It’s a bit of a wrench to move that ‘new’ to the end, but it completes a symmetry. More accomplished is the opening line ‘I see trees of green, red roses too’ from ‘What a Wonderful World’,1 where the sentence is plant colour : colour plant.
