Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.8
Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.8
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c15.8
(iii) By contamination of the cadences of the two kinds of verse the dimeter verse is often, sometimes almost regularly, reduced to seven syllables: whilst the trimeter verse is with varying regularity extended to twelve syllables, and thus approximates to that used in lyric verse.