The following is a seesa padyam from Hara Vilasam. In the Dance Dramas, they treat most poems as songs. And a seesa padyam, with its wide latitude in prosodical structure could become indistinguishable from a song. In fact, Suresh Kolichala is fond of citing the example of a telugu movie song,
ArEsu kObOyi pArEsu kunnAnu; kOkettu kellindi konDa gAli ... which is half-of a seesa line.
WIthout further ado, the scene is Parvati as a young maiden, in the garden with her friends. The song describes the exuberance of the botany there.
kamAs rAgamu
prati remmapai vrAli palkarincu terangu ela mAvi tOTa kOyilala gumpu prati pUta cuTTi rApADu vEpa taruvu lella yeDala tEneTIga danDu prati mogganu spRSinci paravaSimpinci pU- yincu vEkuva viharincu gAli prati pUvuTeda pongu praNaya mAranda nish- yandammu cUrADu aLikulammu
konDagOgulu vicce, kOrkulu cigirce, erra gOrinTa pUce, lE yedalu virise, kaDimi virabUce, manasu rekkalu vidirce, tammi moggala vale pArvatamma navve.
In the main seesa, see the over-all progression from remma, pUta, mogga, puvvu! In the accompanying tETagIti, see the juxtaposition of the "expressions" of nature, and pArvati herself, as if she were part of the nature itself!
And in the whole poem, note the abundance of acca telugu, which gives it a delicate beauty.
Hats off to Sri Bhujangaraya Sarma.
Ramakrishna