Closed forms of Indian poetry

An introduction to poetic metre

Abstract

This article is based on a lecture on metrics in literature given at an internal workshop at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University in 2004, with contributions on the topic in classical and oriental languages. It can be read as an introduction to Indian poetics with its focus on presenting metric patterns in Indian poetry with regard to the linguistic issue of prosody as the primary basis for potential comparative studies.