The Music of Hindostan c13.s2.26

c13.s2.26

as the arrangement of the words in the four lines of Marathi shows This is of the form *a + b + a'*, in which *a'* is *a* taken backwards, and *b* is a well-contrasted member of the line. This suggests an interesting reading of the scansion of Alcaic and Sapphic stanzas, both of them forms about which it is difficult to make up one's mind: