Its first line is the title of the poem, which is followed by ÒAnd the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the nightÓ.
This poem's last section begins, ÒPassing the visions, passing the night,Ó and the penultimate one mentions Òbattle-corpses, myriads of themÓ and Òdebris of all the slain soldiers of the warÓ. The 14th section proclaims, Òpraise! praise! praise!Ó, continuing the pattern of repetition established earlier in the poem by the eighth section, which begins nearly every line with ÒAsÓ; the sixth, which begins nearly every line with ÒWithÓ; and the second, which begins nearly every line with ÒOÓ. In 1946, this poem was set to music by Paul Hindemith. Its first line is the title of the poem, which is followed by ÒAnd the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the nightÓ. Followed in the collection in which it appears by O (*) Captain! My Captain!, FTP, name this elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman.
This poem's last section begins, ÒPassing the visions, passing the night,Ó and the penultimate one mentions Òbattle-corpses, myriads of themÓ and Òdebris of all the slain soldiers of the warÓ.
{When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd}