Shiloh - A Requiem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEEBFGHHIHIBJB| Skimming lightly wheeling still | A |
| The swallows fly low | B |
| Over the field in clouded days | C |
| The forest field of Shiloh | B |
| Over the field where April rain | D |
| Solaced the parched one stretched in pain | D |
| Through the pause of night | E |
| That followed the Sunday fight | E |
| Around the church of Shiloh | B |
| The church so lone the log built one | F |
| That echoed to many a parting groan | G |
| And natural prayer | H |
| Of dying foemen mingled there | H |
| Foemen at morn but friends at eve | I |
| Fame or country least their care | H |
| What like a bullet can undeceive | I |
| But now they lie low | B |
| While over them the swallows skim | J |
| And all is hushed at Shiloh | B |
Herman Melville
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