Analysis of When Cap'n Tom Comes Home
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
WHEN Cap'n Tom comes home, and his sea chest
Is opened, oh, the shells that rainbow foam
Tossed on far shores, by us to be possessed
When Cap'n Tom comes home!
Cocoanuts for which gray, chattering monkeys clomb;
Tamarinds, and dates, and luscious sweetmeats pressed
Into blue jars of quaint pagoda dome!
Canaries, corals, shimmering shawls and, best
Of all, keepsakes that on wild seas a-roam
He carved from whale's tooth for a village blest
When Cap'n Tom comes home!
Scheme | abaBbababaB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 110101111 1111111101 111111 10111100101 10101011 0111110101 01010100101 111111101 1111110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 369 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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