This is an analysis of Shiloh - A Requiem by Herman Melville.
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccddbcceeXeXaXb
- Stanza lengths: 19,
- Metre: 1010101 01011 10010101 0101010 10011101 100011101 10101 1100111 0101010 01110111 1100100101 11001 01010101 10111111 1110111 110101100 11111 11000101 1101110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 19
