Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c13.38

c13.38

Although the increase of syncopation is therefore not equally observable in every group of the normal and cretic period, yet it is very marked in the hymns of these periods considered as a whole. This increase appears to continue in the popular Rigveda, so far as can be judged from the small amount of verse in the lyric metres and in Gāyatrī: for in groups 24 and 25 the syncopated forms decidedly outnumber the iambic forms.