Except for the first quatrains, the other three are written in a tercet. The poem has four stanzas and thirteen lines. Whitman’s ‘Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day’ like his other poems are written in free verse. He prefers a soldier from the camp to sing a song, for he knows Lincoln better than anyone. Considering all these he wants ‘the poet’ (a soldier or an appeal to himself) to sing a song as they slide down the body of Lincoln to bury. Further, he states that he doesn’t have to worry about the dark times of the war. Despite the sorrow that was befallen by the death of Abraham Lincoln, he brings in a positive note when he says that his commander has no worries about victory or defeat. He wants the soldiers to retire and drape the weapons, as the war is done. The poet begins by requesting the camps to be quiet in honor of their lost commander. ‘Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day’ by Walt Whitman reveals his intentions of writing a poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln. The poet has employed irony in the poem as he talks of the Death of Lincoln. The poem ‘Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day’ by Walt Whitman reveals his intentions of writing a poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln.
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