Composed between 1911 and the following year, this work has a seven-year gap since the preceding poem. However, during this period, mature works in other genres were composed, such as Piano Sonata No. 5, The Poem of Ecstasy, and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. Furthermore, Scriabin's social circle increasingly included poets and critics who espoused Russian Symbolism, rather than musicians, and he joined the Theosophical Society in 1908.

This piece adopts a single-movement sonata form. The 'mystic chord' that forms the opening – D-flat, F, G, B-flat, C-flat, E-double-flat, E-flat – is used almost throughout the entire piece. In this piece, the nuanced French markings can be cited as something that offers a glimpse into the 'mysticism' in Scriabin's works. Below, their translations are presented in order:

• "With capricious grace" → "Lightly, vividly"
• "Like moving shadows"
• "Like indistinct murmurs"
• "With the joy of dormant sensuality"
• "Transparent, like pearls"
• "Exhausted and languid"
• "As if in a dream"
• "Gradually more passionately"
• "Suddenly languidly"
• "Clearly"
• "Enchantingly"
• "With nascent passion"
• "Sweetly, languidly"
• "Softly, clearly"