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Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

VI. Poems in New Metres

Journey’s End

The day ends lost in a stretch of even,

A long road trod – and the little farther.

Now the waste-land, now the silence;

A blank dark wall, and behind it heaven.

 

Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p.

Lines 1, 2, 4 epitrite, third paeon, trochee

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In line 3 two double trochees

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