Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 1. Poetry and its Creation
Section 3. Poetic Technique
Metrical Experiments in Bengali

Mātrā-vṛtta [1]

I am quite convinced of the possibilities of the mātrā-vṛtta — which would exist even if Anilbaran is right in insisting that it is the সগোত্র [sagotra] of the akṣara-vṛtta. Two people may be cousins and yet have different characters, possibilities and destinies — and so may two metres.

9 September 1932