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It is a " carol" ditty* or harmony that occurs in most poems or romances, in the passages that describe rural scenes and pleasures. It uses both the yati, the press, and the (wcf^po&s&sSij) rhyming terminations. The feet are very irregular, and some erroneously imagine they may be measured by the "Chandra" feet (see page 234.) The fact is that the composer's ear is the only criterion, and the sense is not always clear. For, as their own criticks remark, a Ragada or melody, is as independant of sense as a bird's song is of words. In fact this is in verse what the capriccio is in music: though wild, it is the result of premeditation. The following are instances.

Tale of Tara. 11. 135. But the favourite sort is the following: —

er^ejtc^cStiSo * Nor &cvtx>oXt&x.o


Bhanumati Parinayam 11. 92. The ear will easily perceive the prosody of these verses: in the first instance the lines may be measured by dactyls: or by four feet of four short syllables (proceleusraa) which are equivalent to dactyls: in the second each line has four feet and each foot is equal to five short syllables, That is, a dactyl with a short ^dded: or, five breves.

Different sorts of Ragadas are marked with various fanciful names: of which nine are given in books of prosody, such as the

  • " Ditty" see Paradise Lost XI. 584. and 1.449 Caroll" ib XII. 367. A Melody. — See Midsummer Nights Dream.