Savitri
The Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother

Chapter 5Journey’s End

Book 4. Poems in Quantitative Metres

Poems in Quantitative Metres Journey’s End5 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. 5 Lines 1, 2, 4, epitrite, third paeon, trochee, ⌣— — — |⌣⌣— ⌣| — ⌣. In line 3, two double trochees, — ⌣— ⌣| — ⌣— ⌣.