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Literary English permits deviations from standard grammar for effect — inverted word order, deliberate fragments, and archaic or poetic structures rarely used in everyday or academic writing.
Using literary inversion in an everyday business email.
Literary structures like "Gone were the days..." belong in creative or reflective writing, not formal business correspondence — register matters.
Gone was the days of carefree summers.
Gone were the days of carefree summers. — The inverted verb still agrees with the plural subject "days."
Gone were the days of freedom.
Silent, the house waited.