FEET HAVING TWO SYLLABLES IN EACH.
X, or K u w Xoiv Xenes Spondee.
LL ll e>£» Liber u \j Pyrrhic.
GLorHvl KoK Hoesifc — w Trochee.
LGorVlv./ eitfo Vagans \j — Iambus.
(*Native writers on prosody often express the xx by TP and the by tr'. Thus also w Ja would denote "two amphibrachs." Syllables being used to denote feet as ut, re, mi, &c. in the gamut signify notes.)
SECTION II. ON THE UNIFORM METRES.
The learned assert that there are many thousand uniform metres: but in fact only ten or twelve are in common use.
The Regular or uniform metres have the four lines of the stanza alike; in the following instance, as in some English verses, there is a long and a short syllable alternately: the star denotes the yate or pause (caesura) in each line.
Ramabhyud. V. 213. Again, in the novel of Bhanumanta (5. 112.)
sfcO&-Kr»6(T»iS8o£) * s£r»;S"3ooOti-«8er* eo ej «
This metre, called Hamsa-yana is the same as the Greek Tetrameter Catalectic or the common ballad metre.
What though silent is my anguish Or breath'd only to the air
