Note that the Shakespeare quote in the beginning is an example of antimetabole, not a pun.

Any joke that takes five screens of text to explain is not the least bit funny

> Rarely can you swap two words to form a correct grammatically sentence, yet he played with words like a magician.

Polish poet Sep-Szarzyński was an absolute master of this. Of course it helps that word order in Slavic languages is flexible, yet still. Hos poems are mind-boggling, to the point of being incomprehensible, yet completely gramatically correct.

Good job, I definitely felt punished.