Er Companatico Der Paradiso (Heaven's Food) by Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Er Companatico Der Paradiso (Heaven's Food) that begins with:

Dio doppo avé creato in pochi giorni
Quello che c'è de bello e c'é de brutto, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaX aXa X XbXc dbXX XdXXbbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011001010 101101011010 0001010011100 111001101100 111001001010 011111110 10101010110100 01000110100 1101101100 1010001101010 10011100100 1111100010 10100110010 110001110010 10 10100100011 10011011 010010100101 0111010100 11110110011 1100100010 0010100100 010010110000 1110101011 101101011 100101100101 1100101 101110101 1011001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, in, morze, died are repeated.

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  • summary of Er Companatico Der Paradiso (Heaven's Food);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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