out the final in a monotonous drawl or whine: and hence transcribers ignorant of prosody usually make all these syllables long.
ON THE DWIPADA.
The Dwipada or Common Metre is written in couplets, each of which is connected by prasa. The learned despise couplets because the poems thus written are in a flowing easy style which uneducated persons read with enjoyment. They resemble the Latin iambic of Terence, using colloquial expressions (sermoni propriora.) such as Horace found most suitable to his satires. Sir Samuel Eomilly (in a letter dated 13th October, 1810,) speaking of the Lady of the Lake, observes that it hardly can be viewed as a poem. All this I notice that we may not be led to despise a class of literature which though unpretending is peculiarly profitable to a student. Natives admire pendantry of all sorts: but to a taste formed on English authors, the couplet style of Telugu verse is more agreeable than compositions of more pretence.
The dwipada has in each line three Indra feet and one Surya, with yati in the middle. Some ancient poets, as the author of the Basava Purana, use prasa yati at pleasure : but in more correct compositions of modern date, prasa yati is forbidden in all verse that uses the regular prasa.
In the Lila (^^Soxfie), canto XI. the poet describes a beautiful garden the retreat of a hermit, and then'proceeds thus—
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