Er Caffettiere Fisolofo (the Philosophizing Barman) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB BCB CBC D EFCB BBGF CCC HBI| L'ommini de sto monno s l'istesso | A |
| Che vaghi de caff ner macinino | B |
| C'uno prima uno doppo e un'antro appresso | A |
| Tutti quanti per vanno a un distino | B |
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| Spesso muteno sito e caccia spesso | A |
| Er vago grosso er vago piccinino | B |
| E ss'incarzeno tutti in zu l'ingresso | A |
| Der ferro che li sfraggne in porverino | B |
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| E l'ommini accus viveno ar monno | B |
| Misticati pe mano de la sorte | C |
| Che sse li gira tutti in tonno in tonno | B |
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| E movennose oggnuno o ppiano o fforte | C |
| Senza capillo mai caleno a fonno | B |
| Pe casc ne la gola de la morte | C |
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| English | D |
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| In this world men are like | E |
| Coffee beans in a grinder | F |
| One in front one who follows another one behind | C |
| But all of them move towards the same destiny | B |
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| They often change place and often | B |
| The big coffee bean takes the place of the small one | B |
| And they all cram by the hole | G |
| Where the blade crushes them into powder | F |
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| And this is how men live in this world | C |
| Mingled by the hand of fate | C |
| Which turns them round and round | C |
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| And each of them moving fast or slow | H |
| Unawares they sink down | B |
| To drop in the jaws of death | I |
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
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