Analysis of L'ABBICHINO DE LE DONNE (Womens Abacus)
La donna, inzino ar venti, si è contenta
Mamma, l'anni che ttiè ssempre li canta:
Ne cresce uno oggni cinque inzino ar trenta,
Eppoi se ferma lì ssino a quaranta.
Dar quarantuno impoi stenta e nun stenta,
E ne dice antri dua sino ar cinquanta;
Ma allora, che aruvina pe la scenta,
Te la senti sartà ssubbito a ottanta.
Perché, ar cresce li fiji de li fiji,
Nun potenno esse ppiù donna d'amore,
Vò ffigurà da donna de conziji.
E allora er cardinale o er monziggnore,
Che j'allisciava er pelo a li cuniji,
Comincia a recità da confessore.
Women, till the age of twenty, if mother agrees
Always declare their age:
They count one every five until they are thirty,
And then they stop counting until forty.
From forty-one onwards they barely move,
Declaring two more, until they are fifty;
But then, spoilt by time,
They suddenly reach the age of eigthy.
Because, as the children of their children grow,
No longer being women of love,
They wish to appear as women of wisdom.
And then, cardinals and bishops
Who used to be in friendly terms with them,
Start playing the role of the confessor.
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Metre | 110111011 10111111 110111111 111110010 1111111 111111011 1111111 1111101 1111101110 111110010 1111011 1100010101 1101011 10111 1010111011001 10111 1111001011110 0111100110 1101101101 01011011110 11111 110010111 01101011101 110101011 11101110110 01100010 1111010111 11001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,109 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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