Venpa

Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody.

The venpa meter is used in songs of the types neṭu veṇ pāṭṭu ('long song in venpa meter'), kuṟu veṇ pāṭṭu 'short song in venpa meter', kaikkiḷai "one-sided love," and paripāṭṭu 'song that is quite accommodative' and in satirical compositions (aṅkatac ceyyuḷ).

[2] •Vowels and consonant-vowel compounds(such as ka, kā, ki, kī) in Tamil alphabet have been classified into ones with short sounds (kuril) and the ones with longer sounds (nedil).

The Tamil word asai roughly corresponds to syllable/a group of syllables.

As hand of him whose vesture slips away, Friendship at once the coming grief will stay.