O captain my captain

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O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack the prize we sought is won,

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The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, while follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

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But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

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What is O Captain My Captain a metaphor for? What is the moral of the poem O Captain My Captain?