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Ck. 17 is quoted in the great on Sr. 26 with the varying fourth line recording 145 as an alternative name of the 101. The 416 in its explanation of the definition adds on its own account that 6+4+4+4+3 is the Fut-scheme. This is borne out by our stanzas but with certain important reservations, as the analysis given below shows. If we refer to the group of it, and the glareou for some guidance or clarification on this point there also we are faced with disappointment. So. VIII 50 defines one metre which is preferentially employed in the compositions. It should have 21 morae, with final three morae short and a caesura after the 14. mora. On the other hand Ch. 37 a/9 and Kp. II 25 define rarase as a metre of 21 morae divided as 6+4+6+5. As this infringes the explicit ban on the 1775 put by the CK., one would think this Terapeut to be essentially different from the 3173 of the Cr. But the facts that the definition and illustration stanzas all without fail end in three shorts and that the illustration stanza in the Ch. has a caesura after the 12. mora (cf. ALSDORF's observation, As. p. 47) do not allow any doubts regarding the basic identity of these two metres.
The fact appears that originally a 21-moraic stanza with the final three morae short must have been in common use for the terms and in accordance with the varying practices and traditions it came to have different Gaņa-divisions and positions of the caesura. Only thus can be explained the basic agreement but the divergence in details in the various accounts of this metre.
The ter-stanzas of the Sr. have the caesura optionally after the 11. or 12. mora'. We saw above that the practice of some (CK. 17, Ch. 37 a/10-11) supports the 12-moraic caesura. On the other hand the 11-moraic caesura finds a stronger support in CK. 29. There while defining the strophe Fiergar (mark the name), it is prescribed for the first part which though unnamed is completely identical in form with the same except of course in the position of the caesura--that its lines are made up of 11+10 morae.
The general form of the gif in the Sr. is (the superior
1 Same is the case with the Tres found in the f (beginning of the 19th
cent. A. C.) of Prera (soe Brasoft, GOS. XXXVII.
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