Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 7312

Some Questions of Word-Use [4]

And if great music rolled from his far mouth,

This doesn’t sound right. Either “rolled” must be changed or it should be something like “A mighty music rolled”: that is to say, rolled is too sonant unless what precedes it is sonant also.

16 April 1937