“Catch” by Langston Hughes is about a boy being home a girl he likes and he calls her the catch of his life. This whole poem is a metaphor. Hughes writes that the boy came in with a mermaid on his shoulders with her tail beneath his arm. I think the mermaid represents a pretty girl and her curled tail is her curly hair. In the second stanza Hughes writes that the boy had found a fish to carry and to marry. I think this means that the boy has found a girl he will careful and one day marry. This poem makes me imagine a little boy carrying a mermaid on his shoulders. This poem has obvious imagery. This poem has rhyme but no set rhyme scheme which makes it free verse .