A fine discussion of this poem's structure and effects in the original Latin can be found at: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_catulluscarmen.htm. There is also Frank Bidart's famous version. Catullus's final word, translated above as "I am in torment" and in the online translation as "I burn," is literally, in the Latin, "I am crucified." Bidart's translation: