How well can Bards solo level with melee?

[jolanar]

Untwinked? Not worth it when you have other much better options.

If you are super twinked, it can be very fun and effective to melee up to around level 40, since the downsides of no double attack don't really materialize right away and you have access to spell haste which can make up for a lot of what you are missing with double attack.

I don't see any reason why you couldn't melee a bard to 60, but it really just doesn't make any sense when fear kiting and swarming are a thing.