This is an analysis of Ball's Bluff: A Reverie by Herman Melville.
One noonday, at my window in the town,
I saw a sight - saddest that eyes can see -…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXabab XccdXdc Xeeeeee
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
- Metre: 1101110001 1101101111 11010100 1001 01011010100 11010111 0101010100 1111010101 1101110001 01010101 11011 1111110101 11011101 1101010101 1111110101 11110100101 11111111 1101 1111110101 100111001 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 21
