Analysis of ER GIORNO DER GIUDIZZIO ( On Judgement Day)
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1791 (Rome) – 1863
Quattro angioloni co le tromme in bocca
Se metteranno uno pe cantone
A ssonà: poi co ttanto de vocione
Cominceranno a dì: "Fora a chi ttocca".
Allora vierà su una filastrocca
De schertri da la terra a ppecorone,
Pe ripijà ffigura de perzone
Come purcini attorno de la biocca.
E sta biocca sarà Dio benedetto,
Che ne farà du' parte, bianca, e nera:
Una pe annà in cantina, una sur tetto.
All'urtimo uscirà 'na sonajera
D'angioli, e, come si ss'annassi a letto,
Smorzeranno li lumi, e bona sera.
Four big angels with trumpets
Will stand one in each corner
Playing: then in a loud voice
They will start calling: "Who's next?".
So a row of skeletons
Will come out of the earth crawling on all fours,
To take human form again
Like chicks around the brooding hen.
And this hen will be the holy God
Who will divide them into two groups, white and black:
One to be sent to the cellar, one to the roof .
In the end a crowd of angels
Will come out, and, as if going to bed,
They'll turn out the lights, and everything will be over.
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Metre | 10110101 11011010 0111111 10110011 111101 11111001 11111 111111 111110010 1111101011 10110101011 1111 1111101 11111010 1110110 1110110 1010011 1111011 1011100 11110110111 1110101 11010101 011110101 110110111101 111110101101 00101110 1110111011 111010101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,045 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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