Analysis of ER CONFESSORE (The Confessor)
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1791 (Rome) – 1863
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.
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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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