Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.90

c15.90

249. The internal structure or rhythm of decasyllabic verses has been examined in the last chapter (§§ 228-230). It therefore only remains here to consider the building up of such verses into stanzas and strophes in the hymns that have already been distinguished as composed in decasyllabic metres, and to measure the extent to which these hymns are differentiated from the less regular trimeter hymns from which they have originated.