Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.63

c14.63

The iambic forms || ◡ – ◡, ◡ || – ◡, – || – ◡ may all be considered as *occasional* forms, at least in the archaic period. The form ◡ || – ◡ becomes rather more common in the strophic period, and retains a certain importance in the later groups: but the two remaining forms decrease rapidly in frequency. The occurrence of these forms in connexion with ‘secondary caesura’ has already been discussed in § 205.