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POPULAR BOOKS WRITTEN IN VENPA STYLE # All 1330 couplets from Tirukkural , composed by Tiruvalluvar are examples of Venpa. Tirukkural comes under a sub-category of Venpa called Kural Venpa , wherein each Kural has only two lines. # Nala Venpa 1 is another classical work written in venpa style. # Niti Venpa 2 is another venpa style book that preaches values. BASIC UNITS OF METER IN CLASSICAL TAMIL POETRY Vowel s and consonant-vowel compounds in Tamil Alphabet have been classified into ones with short sounds (''kuril'') and the ones with long sounds (''nedil''). A sequence of one or more of these units optionally followed by a Consonant can form a ner asai (the Tamil word ''asai'' roughly corresponds to '' Syllable '') or a '''nirai''' asai depending on the duration of Pronunciation . Ner and Nirai are the basic units of Meter in tamil Prosody . A '''sIr''' or '''cheer''' is a type of Metrical Foot that roughly corresponds to an Iamb . '''Thalai''' is the Juxtaposition of iambic patterns. GRAMMAR FOR METER IN VENPA A set of well defined metric rules define the grammar for Venpa. Such rules have been proved to form a Context-free Grammar . One set of rules constrains the duration of sound for each word or ''cheer'', while another set of rules defines the rules for the possible sounds at the beginning of a word that follows a given sound at the end of the preceding word. Any Venpa should conform to both these sets of rules. Following is the set of production rules corresponding to the first set of rules. |
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