Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20312
Almost they saw who lived within her light
Her playmate in the sempiternal spheres
Descended from its unattainable realms
In her attracting advent’s luminous wake,
The white-fire dragon-bird of endless bliss
Drifting with burning wings above her days.1
Yes; the purpose is to create a large luminous trailing repetitive movement like the flight of the Bird with its dragon tail of white fire.
1936
1 P. 16. The question was: “Is an accumulating grandiose effect intended by the repetition of adjective-and-noun in four consecutive line-endings?”