quantitative and a purely stress scansion than In Horis Aeternum (where the quantity-aspect seems to be less important than in
The Bird of Fire)?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 6819
In Horis Aeternum and The Bird of Fire
Is The Bird of Fire more of a compromise between a quantitative and a purely stress scansion than In Horis Aeternum (where the quantity-aspect seems to be less important than in
The Bird of Fire)?
In the In Horis Aeternum I did not follow any regular scheme of quantities, letting them come as was needed by the rhythm. In The Bird of Fire I started with the idea of a quantitative element but abandoned it and remodelled the part of the poem in which I had used the quantitative system.