As for the strict forms in which the original poems were written, it seemed an empty exercise to force English into those particular strictures, which in Bengali literary tradition are richly associative but which in English are not. The familiar fourteen-syllable payār couplet with its aa bb cc rhymes and the more intricate three-footed tripadi of variable length and rhyme were the first casualties of the process.

Its noise attracted its outside mate, and the child gloried in its buzzing butts to get in.

[…] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England.

Here the canal came to a check, ending abruptly with a large lock.