So John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats does this thing in some of his lyrics where he’ll start a sentence out with a verb as though it’s an imperative, but it’s from a first-person POV. There’s a lot of examples but the song “Counterfeit Florida Plates” is the one that comes to mind first, for me. Is there a technical term for what he’s doing here?
EDIT: changed wording to be less ambiguous
Thanks for not blaming me.
According to Google, a garden path sentence is one that misleads or tricks. Part of speech doesn’t seem to be a definitional feature. Unless someone comes up with a better answer, I think I might be right.