Analysis of L'INNUSTRIA (Striving)
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1791 (Rome) – 1863
Un giorno che arrestai propio a la fetta,
Senz'avé manco l'arma d'un quadrino,
Senti che cosa fo: curro ar camino
E roppo in quattro pezzi la paletta.
Poi me l'invorto sott'a la giacchetta,
E vado a spasso pe Campovaccino
A aspettà quarche ingrese milordino
Da daje una corcata co l'accetta.
De fatti, ecco che viè quer c'aspettavo.
"Siggnore, guardi un po' quest'anticaja
C'avemo trovo jeri in de lo scavo?"
Lui se ficca l'occhiali, la scannaja,
Me mette in mano un scudo e dice: "Bravo!"
E accusì a Roma se pela la quaja.
One day, I had really gone penniless,
I had no money at all,
And this is what I did: I ran to the fire-place
And broke the shovel into four pieces.
Then I wrapped it up in my jacket,
And went walking along Campo Vaccino,
Waiting for some sofisticated English gentleman,
So to swindle him well.
And what I was waiting for, actually happened.
"Sir, would you take a look at this antique
We found yesterday while excavating?"
He wears his glasses, examines it,
Gives me a shilling and says: "Good job!"
In Rome, this is how we scrape a living.
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Metre | 11111011 1101111 11101101010 11010111 111111 1101011 01111 1110111010 1111111 11111 111001110 1011111 11010111110 110101111 1111101100 1111011 0111111110101 0101001110 111110110 011001101 1011110100 111011 011110110010 1111011101 11101100 111100101 110100111 0111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,084 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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