6. The last syllable of a line, though short by nature, is always lengthened if the next line begins with a double consonant; that is, under the provisions mentioned in rule 4. It is considered highly elegant to run the lines into each other, so that even part of one word may fall in one line and part in the next: thus the rhyme as frequently falls on the middle or end of a word as on the initial.
7. An initial vowel elides the last vowel (if short) of the preceding word. Instances sometimes occur, but very rarely, of a long and short vowel being thus united into one long. This is denominated Pluta: (see sect. 149) but the common elision appears in this verse.
Vemana, book 1, verse 85.
"The exalted saint shall behold him, and say, this is the Great Spirit." This is instead of sStfjSo + e^c&J + S?3c&> + £5^.
8. To prevent this elision, the letters do, o5o, or are inserted, on principles explained in the Grammar.
9. The poets vary their orthography by certain rules of contraction or elongation (dialysis or resolution) to suit the metre. Thus పలుకులు (four shorts) may become పల్కుల (a spondee) and పలికెను, పల్కెన్. The long vowel colloquially added to adverbs and vocative cases is usually dropped; and a long syllable is shortened at pleasure by omitting a consonant. Thus the dactyls యిప్పుడు, అక్కట, అట్టుల become tribrachs, యిపుడు, అకట, అటుల : for other words poetical practice forms the only rule.
