This is an analysis of the poem Shiloh - A Requiem that begins with:
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbccddbcceeXeXaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 01011 10010101 0101010 10011101 100011101 10101 1100111 0101010 01110111 1100100101 11001 01010101 10111111 1110111 110101100 11111 11000101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Shiloh - A Requiem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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