{
 "id": "walt-whitman/o-captain-my-captain",
 "title": "O Captain! My Captain!",
 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
 "poet_slug": "walt-whitman",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
 "book_slug": "leaves-of-grass",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 186,
 "container": "Memories of President Lincoln",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Saturday Press (4 November 1865)",
  "note": "Reprinted in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865–66). This text follows the 1891–92 “deathbed” edition of Leaves of Grass.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!",
   "https://whitmanarchive.org/item/encyclopedia_entry40"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/walt-whitman_leaves-of-grass",
  "file": "memories-of-president-lincoln.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322",
   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 24,
  "n_stanzas": 3,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 69,
  "max_indent": 4
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But O heart! heart! heart!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "O the bleeding drops of red,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Where on the deck my Captain lies,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Fallen cold and dead.",
    "indent": 4
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Rise up⁠—for you the flag is flung⁠—for you the bugle trills,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths⁠—for you the shores a-crowding,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Here Captain! dear father!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "This arm beneath your head!",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "It is some dream that on the deck,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "You’ve fallen cold and dead.",
    "indent": 4
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Exult O shores, and ring O bells!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But I with mournful tread,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Walk the deck my Captain lies,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Fallen cold and dead.",
    "indent": 4
   }
  ]
 ]
}