La processione ignobile

Quando vedo la processione ignobile
Fuoruscire da piccole soglie
E volgersi verso la città, in rivoli che divengono ondate

Di uomini in bombetta che si affrettano
A fondersi a donne con borsetta
Che hanno fretta, fretta,
Su gambe che vanno veloci veloci
In una fretta ignobile, per paura di far tardi,
Io mi sento pieno di umiliazione.

È la loro fretta
Che è così
Umiliante.

The title, "The ignoble procession", immediately refers to the religious world from the word "procession".
However, a contrast is created because the word "procession" which therefore recalls something sacred and spiritual, is combined with the adjective "ignoble", that is contrary to the moral principles of religion.

The poem is written in 11 verses, divided into 3 stanzas.
The third and sixth lines are longer, while the ninth, tenth and eleventh lines are extremely short.

The third and sixth lines are longer probably because they describe people's movements, using adjectives such as fast or similes such as waves.
The ninth, the tenth and the eleventh are instead very short because it wants to combine the haste of people with the feeling of humiliation that he feels towards them and therefore closes the poem with the same haste of the people mentioned above.

In my opinion, nowadays this procession can be compared to the life of all men, too fast and hectic to be lived worthily.
For this reason the narrator feels humiliated, because he does not understand the need to live without realizing it.