Catullus+36

hendecasyllabic
 * Catullus 36**

//Annals of Volusius, defecated papyrus,// - cacata carta - alliteration, assonance, consonance
 * Annales Volusi, cacata carta,**

//fufill the vows of my girlfriend//
 * votum solvite pro mea puella**.

//For she vowed to the sacred Venus and Cupid,//
 * nam sanctae Veneri Cupidinique**

//if I would be restored to her// - vovit - perfect
 * vovit, si sibi restitutus essem**

//and if I would stop hurling vicious iambs// - truces refers to iambos
 * desissemque truces vibrare iambos,**

//that she would give the choosiest writing -// pessimi refers to poetae
 * electissima pessimi poetae**

//of the worst poets to the slow-footed god// - tardipedi - compound word
 * scripta tardipedi deo daturam**

//to be burned by unlucky firewood,// - ustulanda - gerundive
 * infelicibus ustulanda lignis**,

//and the terrible girl saw that// - se - subject of infinitive
 * et hoc pessima se puella vidit**

//she vows this playfully and wittily to the gods.// - asyndeton - indirect statement
 * iocose lepide vovere divis.**

//Now, O! goddess created from the blue sea,//
 * nunc, o caeruleo creata ponto,**

//you who inhabit the sacred Idalium and open Urios//
 * quae sanctum Idalium Uriosque apertos**

//and you who inhabit Ancon and Cnidus full of reeds//
 * quaeque Ancona Cnidumque harundinosam**

//and you who also inhabit Amanthus and Golgi//
 * colis quaeque Amathunta quaeque Golgos**

//and Dyrrachium, the inn of the Adriatic Sea,//
 * quaeque Dyrrachium Hadriae tabernam,**

//make the vow accepted and fufilled,//
 * acceptum face redditumque votum,**

//if not uncharming nor unwitty.// - litotes
 * si non illepidum neque invenustum est.**

//But regardless, you will come into the fire,//
 * at vos interea venite in ignem,**

//full of the country and unrefinements,//
 * pleni ruris et inficetiarum**

//Annals of Volusius, defecated papyrus.//
 * annales Volusi, cacata carta.**