Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
On Some Poems Written during the 1930s

The Metre of Trance [1]

Have you yourself invented the metre of Trance or is it adopted from some former poet?

No. I am not aware that anyone has used this metre before. It came to me just as I finished the Bird of Fire and I put it down.

23 October 1933