Kavitt

A particular meter, or rhythm pattern,
in Hindi poetry. Verses composed in
the Kavitt meter have four lines of
thirty-one syllables each, with the
break in each individual line often
coming after the sixteenth syllable.
This is an unusually long meter, thus
lending itself well to extended
descriptions employing alliteration;
in his Kavitavali, the poet-saint
Tulsidas uses this meter with great
affect to describe battle scenes.
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