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?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHAIJF
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 597
Words 104
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

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