Analysis of ER CONFESSORE (The Confessor)



Padre... -- Dite il confiteor. -- L'ho detto. --
L'atto di contrizione? -- Già l'ho ffatto. --
Avanti dunque. -- Ho detto cazzo-matto
A mi' marito, e j'ho arzato un grossetto. --

Poi? -- Pe una pila che me róppe er gatto
Je disse for de me: "Si' maledetto";
E è cratura de Dio! -- C'e altro? -- Tratto
Un giuvenotto, e ce sò ita a letto. --

E lì cosa è successo? -- Un po' de tutto.--
Cioè? Sempre, m'immagino, pel dritto. --
Puro a riverzo... -- Oh che peccato brutto!

Dunque, in causa di questo giovanotto,
Tornate, figlia, con cuore trafitto,
Domani, a casa mia, verso le otto.

Father... -- Say the Confiteor . -- I did. --
The act of contrition ? -- I have already made it. --
Well then. -- I called my husband an idiot,
And I stole from him a silver piece. --

What else? -- When the cat broke a pot
I shouted to her in rage: "Curse on you";
She is God's creature! -- Anything else? -- I'm having
An affair with a young man, and I have slept with him. --

And what happened there? -- More or less, everything. --
You mean always frontwards , I suppose. --
Also backwards... -- Oh what a terrible sin!

So, by reason of this young man,
Come, my dear, with a grieving heart,
To see me at home, tomorrow at eight o'clock.


Scheme AAAA AAAA AAA AAA AAAX AXBX BXX XAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1111111 01011111 011111111 11101111101 1111111 11111111 111111001 111011111 11111 1011111 101111 11111 101010101 1010111 0110101101011 11111101100 011110101 11101101 1101001111 11110101110 1011011011111 0110111110 1111101 10101101001 11101111 11110101 11111011101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,243
Words 241
Sentences 36
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli

Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome. more…

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