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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" Poetry Foundation. (Web)

• "O Captain, My Captain" is an elegy/dirge of 24 lines broken into three stanzas.

• Each stanza consists of a four-line verse followed by a four-line chorus.

• The verses are rhymed couplets that, for the most part, are written in iambic meter--though the number of metrical feet per line varies.

• The lines of each chorus, when read aloud in pairs, (lines 5 and 6 together, lines 7 and 8 together, and so on) follow the same pattern as the verse lines do individually--but when read separately, on the page, these lines appear much shorter and to have an every-other-line rhyme pattern.

• The poem opens with an apostrophe: "O Captain, My Captain! our fearful trip is done," establishing that the speaker is a sailor on...

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