Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6892

Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [8]

Into how many feet do you scan the line

Draped in the leaves’ emerald vivid monotone [cf. p. 13]?

Five, the first being taken as a dactyl. A little gambol like that must be occasionally allowed in an otherwise correct metrical performance.

2 November 1936