Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6700

Imperfect Rhymes [1]

These [“life” and “cliff”, “smile” and “will”] are called in English imperfect rhymes and can be freely but not too freely used. Only you have to understand the approximations and kinships of vowel sounds in English, otherwise you will produce illegitimate children like “splendour” and “wonder” which is not a rhyme but an assonance.

19 December 1935