Poetry Forms Easily Explained - a work of Bianca with additions by kansaspoet
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Anustubh is one of the old Sanskrit meters. It is also known as zloka. Anustubh contains a total of thirty two syllables. These are divided over four lines of eight syllables. The Anustubh has an irregular meter, so it seems, though there is a small "regularity". I quote: "The first four syllables of each line are totally irregular. The next four syllables have to be either short-long-long-(optional/long) in the first and third lines and short-long-short-(optional/long) in the second and fourth lines." The caesura in the Anustubh gives a kind of break between the first part of the eight syllables and the second part. It may shift, as the importance of the caesura is only to pause for a second. Anustubh is usually used to chant, like a mantra. An example: free your mind of sorrow and fear positive thoughts renew the soul value life, teach children knowledge never fail to try, you'll find heaven! Poem © Bianca 2005 Sources: http://www.stanford.edu/~jackm/poem.htm http://jagat.wisewisdoms.com/articles/showarticle.php?id=66 Read my blog: http://www.xanga.com/bianca_b ** Image ID #1025773 Unavailable ** http://home.planet.nl/~boons468/cards.html |