Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6674

Some Questions of Scansion [1]

Words like “tire”, “fire” etc. can be scanned as a dissyllable in verse as well as a monosyllable, though it is something of a licence nowadays, but a still well-recognised licence. Of course, it would not do to do it always.

19 November 1930