Latin, an inflected language, makes possible effects that are impossible in our word-order English. Words not in agreement can be placed side by side for ironic effect; images can carry from one word to the next, the memory, the lingering overtone of the first making a chord, or a prism, with the second; the line, or the stanza, can be full of ambiguities or surprises, matters held in suspense, judgment on them changed as we go along, and the resolution not coming till the very end.