Synchysis

Synchysis is a rhetorical technique wherein words are intentionally scattered to create bewilderment, or for some other purpose. By disrupting the normal course of a sentence, it forces the audience to consider the meaning of the words and the relationship between them.
In poetry.
This poetry form was a favorite with Latin poets. It is described by the website Silva Rhetoricae as "Hyperbaton or anastrophe taken to an obscuring extreme, either accidentally or purposefully." It is doubtful, however, whether it could be correct to describe effects in Latin poetry, which was very carefully written, as accidental.
A synchysis may be opposed to chiasmus, which is a phrase in the form A-B-B-A, either in the same line or in two consecutive lines.
A line of Latin verse in the form "adjective A - adjective B - verb - noun A - noun B", with the verb in the center (or a corresponding chiastic line, again with the verb in the center), is known as a golden line. A highly common occurrence in Virgil's Aeneid, an example is "aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem", "a golden clasp bound her purple cloak" (Virgil, Aeneid 4.139). Usually, synchysis is formed through the "adjective A - adjective B - noun A - noun B" structure, but it can also exist as "adjective-noun-adjective-noun".
Today, it is mainly found in poetry, where poets use it to maintain metre or rhyme.
Examples in Latin poetry.
Catullus notably made use of synchysis in his poetry. Catullus 75 has this line:
Taking "mea" with "Lesbia" this line reads:
The correct way to translate the line, however, is to take it with the more distant "mens", observing Catullus's synchysis:
Another example comes from Horace (Odes I.35, lines 5ff.), part of a hymn to a goddess:
The meaning is "thee, (the mistress) of the countryside, the poor farmer beseeches with anxious prayer, thee, the mistress of the ocean, whoever provokes the Carpathian sea in a Tyrrhenian boat (beseeches)", "dominam" being understood with "ruris" as well as "aequoris". Often, through failure to spot the synchysis, "ruris" is taken with "colonus", and the verse is incorrectly translated as "the poor farmer of the countryside".