Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Fragment ID: 20296

Air was a vibrant link between earth and heaven.¹

No, it is because “link twixt”, two heavy syllables (heavy because ending with two consonants) with the same vowel, makes an awkward combination which can only be saved by good management of the whole line – but here the line was not written to suit such a combination, so it won’t do.

1936

¹ P. 4. The question was: I notice that you have changed “twixt” to “between” when substituting “link” for “step” in the line,

Air was a vibrant step twixt earth and heaven.

Is it merely because twelve lines earlier “twixt” has been used?

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