For some minutes Colomba continued in this strain, addressing herself sometimes to the corpse, sometimes to the family, and sometimes, by a personification frequently employed in the ballata, making the dead man himself speak words of consolation or counsel to his kinsfolk.
Colombak bere bertsoak osatzen segitu zuen denboraldi batez, bai hildakoa eta bai familia aipatuz. Batzuetan, ballatan nahikoa arrunta den prosopopeiaz, lagunak kontsolatzeko edo aholkuak emateko hildakoari hitz eginarazten zion.