Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c5.s1.4

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c5.s1.4

21. Similarly, trimeter verses which contain only ten syllables are not uncommon, such verses being usually equivalent to the verse of eleven syllables with the loss of a syllable before or after the caesura. These shorter verses may be termed *decasyllabic*.

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