This is an analysis of Er Logotenente (The Lieutenant) by Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli.

Come intese a ciarlà der cavalletto,
Presto io curze dar zor Logotenente:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XaX X XbaX bXXX XXb XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Metre: 1100111000 11101111000 10100100011000 110111110100 11000100101110 101110101011 111001011100 11001110110000 1000001011010100 1101011010 11011101010 101001110101100 1101000111010 10101010010 10 111110100101001 11000010 1011011000110 1101010110110 11101011 110101001 1111011011101 1111101011000 1000011111010 1101110101 101101110 1111110110 1110111 101110100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

e, he

Anaphora

he

Anadiplosis

innocente, innocent