O captain my captain

O Captain ! My Captain! Poetic devices: rhyme- End/internal/slanted/rhyme scheme Repetition- Alteration Consonance- repeated Word Order- flow of words Imagery- Metaphor, sensory language

Loaf at your ease, luxuriating in the poet’s unhurried, insinuated cadences, Peter Schjeldahl writes.

This draft of "O Captain! My Captain!" featuring corrections handwritten by the poet is dated 1888. Reprinted from the Library of Congress.