Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.11

c14.11

The questions to be investigated fall naturally under the following headings: (i) the caesura, (ii) the rhythm of the ‘opening,’ (iii) the ‘break,’ or rhythm of the fifth, sixth and seventh syllables, (iv) the cadence, and (v) variations in the number of syllables, so far as they are not included under the preceding headings.