Catullus is starting to make his poems be more about the admiration and love he has for Lesbia, rather than his desperation to be with her. His poems have taken on a change since the first one, poem about "that guy." Also, the poem has gone done in the number of lines he writes.
This poem also has a big contradiction with poem 92. In this poem, Catullus states that Lesbia and the character Catullus are in deep love, and that there is no greater love between the two. In poem 92 however, there seems to be some doubt if the love really is true, by stating, "May I perish if she doesn't love me." In a way, it seems like he needs to assure himself that the love is really true. Which can go back to a central theme of doubt and paranoia about love.
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