Analysis of Are You The New Person, Drawn Toward Me?
Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)
ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning--I am surely far different from what you
suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade--this smooth and tolerant
manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic
man?
Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHAIJF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101101011 101111011101100111 01 110111101101 111111011101110 111010111101010 1111110010 1111101111110100 1011 1101010101110101010 1 11111101111110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 597 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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