<P> Throughout the paper there is a distinct rhyme scheme, which is unusual for Whitman . The rhyme scheme in "O Captain! My Captain!" is AABCDEFE, GGHIJEKE, and LLMNOEPE for each stanza respectively . Two examples of alliteration are in line 10 "flag is flung", as well as in line 19 "safe and sound". Repetition occurs many times in this poem, for example "O Captain! My Captain", and "fallen cold and dead". </P> <P> "O Captain! My Captain!" became one of Whitman's most famous poems, one that he would read at the end of his famous lecture about the Lincoln assassination . Whitman became so identified with the poem that late in life he remarked, "Damn My Captain...I'm almost sorry I ever wrote the poem ." </P> <P> Walter Huston recited the poem, with special musical underscoring by Victor Young, on a 1947 Decca Records album titled Our Common Heritage . The recording was rebroadcast as part of a 1954 Memorial Day edition of the WNBC poetry radio program Anthology . </P> <P> A musical version of the poem appears on Carolyn Hester's 1965 live album At Town Hall . </P>

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