Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7954

Q: In the line –

Halo-moon of ecstasy unknown –

is the “o” assonance satisfactory, or does the ear feel the two sounds come too close or for some reason are too insistent?

A: It seems to me that there is sufficient space between to prevent the assonance from being too prominent; it came like that and I kept it because the repetition and the prolongation of the full “o” sound seemed to me to carry in it a certain unexpressed (and inexpressible) significance.