Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1938
Letter ID: 2052
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
March 6, 1938
O dear, dear, what have you done, Sir? Havoc, indeed! You couldn’t get the trochaic rhythm in yesterday’s poem1?
My God, that was intended for trochaic? You are sure it was not anapaestic or dactylic or all three together + iambic? That would be a more accurate description of it. I couldn’t make out what metre was intended so I reduced all to a single one, octosyllabics.
“Incense-woven words thy heaven-reveried.”
Words can be woven with incense?
They may be but can’t be woven by incense, but what the deuce is the construction of this line? and the meaning?
Woven-incense words and heaven-reveried.
1 “My Thoughts”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 39.