Desu is the present positive form of 'be': is. Ka is a question marker when the last sound in a sentence. Japanese grammar also puts desu at the end of sentences. So 'desu ka' is just a combination of the two. I could mean 'isn't it', but that's just a lose translation, I believe.
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For Further Study. Written on the occasion Abraham Lincolnâs assassination, âO Captain! My Captain!â was first published in the New York Saturday Press (November 1865) and was later included, along with âWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomâd,â in a group of poems titled âSequelâ to Drum Taps (1865).