La Scerta (The Choice) by Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Scerta (The Choice) that begins with:

Sta accusì. La padrona cor padrone,
Volenno marità la padroncina ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXX XXX X XXXX aXXX XaX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101100110 1001011000 1110010010100 11110010 101110010100 10111100010 11011000110 1100111101000 100010000110 1110100110010 1100110100 1101101110 1011001100 0100101110010 10 00101110110 100111010 11010100 11001001001 100110110 01111010110 10101111011 110111 010000110010 10101010 1011111100 100111010 1001110111 11110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, of are repeated.

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  • summary of La Scerta (The Choice);
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  • history of its creation;
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