A padyam, or verse, usually consists of four lines, each of which may often be conveniently divided where the rhyme (yati) falls, so as to form a couplet. We sometimes, though rarely, find five or even six lines (see sect. 63) in a verse.
10. Most poems vary the metre perpetually: though we occasionally meet 10 with works written wholly in one metre. Prose is interspersed among the verses. «
11. The following Sanscrit and Telugu sets of words expressing the table II of feet, have been found very useful by Telugu natives who learnt prosody from the present work. Two of my teachers composed them at my request, and acknowledged the great difficulty of constructing them successfully: a task which at first sight seemed very easy. Many others have attempted it, and failed.
Thus the table of feet may be acquired in a single lesson, which, as usually learnt by Bramins in a series of intricate verses, take more time to learn than the whole prosody as now explained. This invention has been allowed a place in the Asiatic Researches.
