This is an analysis of When Cap'N Tom Comes Home by Katharine Lee Bates.
WHEN Cap'n Tom comes home, and his sea chest
Is opened, oh, the shells that rainbow foam…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaBXababaB
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 111111011 0101011111 1111110001 11111 101111100101 10011110101 0011010101 01010100111 0111111101 1101110101 11111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11
Repeated words/phrases
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