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A meter used in this non-Japanese language's poetry divides lines of seventeen syllables into sections of four long syllables, five short syllables and one long, and seven that alternate. In a poem in this language that uses "slow-stepped verse," a banished (20[1])nature spirit tries to send a message to his wife in (20[1])the mountains. (20[8])A king is cursed to forget about his (20[1])new queen (20[2]0[1])until a (*) fisherman (10[1])shows him a (10[1])ring (10[5])in (10[2])a (10[1])play (10[3])in this language (10[1])by the author (10[1])of The Cloud Messenger. (10[2]0[1])In an epic in this language attributed (10[1])to Valmiki, a prince (10[1])is exiled to the forest for fourteen (10[1])years before his wife, Sita, is kidnapped by Ravana, the king of Lanka. For 10 points, name this classical language used to write the Ramayana. ■END■ (10[3])

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