Another use of particle "wo"?

Question

君の目が貫いた　僕の胸を真っ直ぐ

This is one of the lines in a song I recently heard.

I was confused why the particle "wo" is in between the direct object and an adverb that modifies the verb, 貫いた.

Can anyone explain what is going on in the sentence? Does it only apply on Written Japanese? Thanks in advance! ^~^

Here's the Lyrics

Answer 1

(Please add a link to the original lyrics, or at least provide several lines around this. Otherwise, no one can tell if 僕の胸 is really the object of 貫いた, since lyrics usually have no punctuation marks.)

This 僕の胸 is indeed the object of 貫いた placed after the verb. It's semantically the same as 君の目が僕の胸を真っ直ぐ貫いた, but looks more dramatic and poetic.

This is a common rhetorical device called 倒置法. Similar things happen also in English, but this is more common in the Japanese language because it does not rely much on the word order thanks to the particles.

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