I think the rhyming couplet that contains an inverted sentence is
"THY various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp by thee! Thy wond'rous acts in beauteous order stand, <span>And all attest how potent is thine hand."
because a rhyming couplet contains two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought, and an inverted sentence is a sentence in which the normal word order is being reverted with the verb before the subject with the predicate coming right after a clause.</span>
The conclusion can you draw from Ida Willensky's description of trying to open the eighth floor door is that you had to pull the door to get out or the door opens inward