Translating poetry is, in many ways, an impossibility, which is why the best translations are by poets and not linguists as they’re essentially writing a new poem with the skeleton of the original.
Not quite what I was expecting—I was thinking that it was going to be because English has a somewhat weird history, being a Germanic language that’s incorporated a rather large amount of Latinate vocabulary between the Romans and the French. This allows for differing registers in language that don’t exist in other languages because there’s a choice between Latinate vocabulary and Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, something which Shakespeare also made great use of.
