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Compose a Pāda · पादरचना
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Now write one line yourself
Eight syllables, and only three of them are constrained. Build a line from words you already know; the meter is checked as you go, exactly the way a poet checks it — by ear first, then by counting.
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syllables
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syllables 5·6·7
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Your line scans.
Eight syllables, and the fifth, sixth and seventh fall exactly where the meter wants them. Say it aloud twice; that is a real pāda of anuṣṭubh, the same shape as every verse in the Gītā.
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The word bank
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Lines you have written
A composed pāda is not a poem — but every poem in this language started as one. ॐ