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search  Venpa (வெண்பா in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil
poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon
the rules of metric prosody. Such rules form a context-free
grammar. Every Venpa consists of between two to twelve lines.
Popular books written in Venpa style[edit]    1. 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.   2. Nala
venpa1 is another classical work written in venpa style.   3.
Niti venpa2 is another venpa style book that preaches values.
Basic elements of meter in classical Tamil poetry[edit]  Vowels
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 t