Analysis of ER COMMERCIO LIBBERO (The Free Trade)
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1791 (Rome) – 1863
Be'? So' pputtana, venno la mi' pelle:
Fo la miggnotta, si, sto ar cancelletto:
Lo pijo in quello largo e in quello stretto:
C'è gnent'antro da dì? Che cose belle!
Ma ce sò stat'io puro, sor cazzetto,
Zitella com'e tutte le zitelle;
E mo nun c'è chi avanzi bajocchelle
Su la lana e la paja der mi' letto.
Sai de che me laggn'io? No der mestiere
Che ssarìa bell'e bono, e quanno butta
Nun pò ttrovasse ar monno antro piacere.
Ma de ste dame che stanno anniscoste
Me laggno, che, vedenno quanto frutta
Lo scortico, ciarrubbeno le poste.
What's wrong? Yes, I'm a prostitute, I sell myself:
I'm a whore, yes, I work at the window:
I take it in the wide and in the narrow:
Nothing else to say? Wonderful!
But, dear mister fool, also I have been
A maiden like any other girl;
And now there is nobody
Who has not yet visited my bed.
Do you know what I dislike? Not the work itself
Which is fine and, if it's well going,
There's no pleasure like it.
But these great ladies, who remain undercover
And who, having realized how profitable
This business is, steel our customers.
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Metre | 1111111 1111111 110101010101 1111111 111110111 111101 1111111 1110111111 11111111 1101110111 1111111 1111111 111111 11101 1111010111 1011111010 11100100010 10111100 1110110111 010110101 01111 111110011 111110110101 111011110 111011 11110101010 01101011000 1101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,087 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 15 |
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) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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