Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.66

c14.66

(ii) With a late caesura both the opening and the break are comparatively inelastic in rhythm: hence, as the examples quoted above (§ 206) shew, the trimeter rhythm tends towards an absolutely rigid scheme, viz. ◡ - ◡ - ◡ || ◡ ◡ - ◡ - ◡.