>Dear Rett, Ole and friends,
>
>thanks, Rett. This is very useful. So, Ven. Narada was right in his
>book: http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/pali.php?course=lesson20
>
>Just to confirm, do we count aa, ii and uu (the long vowels) as one
>syllable? Thanks.
>
>

Thanks for the reference to Narada. Yes, I was just counting
syllables without regards to length.

It's possible that other metrical considerations come into play to
make cps 'sound nice' but I don't know what they might be. A very
tentative guess would be that given an equal number of syllables, an
element with several long syllables might prefer to come after an
element with only short syllables, ex: ...|-.- and not -.-|... But as
I said, this is just a hypothesis.

best regards,

/Rett