GCSE Latin: Catullus: Conflicting Emotions

Latin
odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse reqiuris?
nescio, sed fieri id sentio et excrucior.

English
I hate and I love. Why do I do it, perhaps you ask?
I don't know, but I feel it happening and I am tormented.

Notes
Catullus' emotions pull him in conflicting directions. He knows and yet does not know what he feels for Lesbia (the implied subject, but not mentioned). Each line opens with a statement, followed by a comment on it. It is unclear who does the asking: the reader? Lesbia? Catullus himself? What is the torment: Love? Hate? or both together?

There aer several contrasts in the two lines: emotion (odi/amo); person (faciam/requiris); reason and emotion (nescio/senito) and hence doing (active) and suffering (passive) (faciam/fieri, excrucior).

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Metre
Elegiac couplets. Each line is rhythmically balanced within itself.