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O Captain! My Captain!

poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln
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O Captain! My Captain!

Summary

O Captain! My Captain! is a literary work[1]. O Captain! My Captain! ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,087 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • O Captain! My Captain! authored Walt Whitman[3].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s genre is poetry[5].
  • Among the performers on O Captain! My Captain! was Meital Trabelsi[6].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s Commons category is recorded as O Captain! My Captain![7].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • 1865 marks the founding of O Captain! My Captain![9].
  • O Captain! My Captain! was released on November 4, 1865[10].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s has edition or translation is recorded as O Captain! My Captain![11].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s has edition or translation is recorded as O Captain! My Captain![12].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s has edition or translation is recorded as O Captain! My Captain![13].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s has edition or translation is recorded as Q133364757[14].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s has edition or translation is recorded as Q19494087[15].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s has edition or translation is recorded as Q133365497[16].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s main subject is assassination of Abraham Lincoln[17].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s published in is recorded as The Saturday Press[18].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'O Captain! My Captain!'}[19].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done,'}[20].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Fallen cold and dead.'}[21].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s copyright status is recorded as public domain[22].
  • O Captain! My Captain!'s form of creative work is recorded as poem[23].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Poem[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3286f818-4ebd-47d4-ab4d-85d42ff5395e[25]

Body

Authorship and Creation

O Captain! My Captain! authored Walt Whitman[3]. Among the performers on O Captain! My Captain! was Meital Trabelsi[6].

Publication

O Captain! My Captain! was published on November 4, 1865[10]. O Captain! My Captain!'s language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Its genre is poetry[5].

Subject and Themes

O Captain! My Captain!'s main subject is assassination of Abraham Lincoln[17].

Why It Matters

O Captain! My Captain! ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,087 views/month).[2] O Captain! My Captain! has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

Related Entities

literary work poetry public domain Walt Whitman

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Instance of → literary work
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