Soratha

Metrical form in northern Indian devotional (bhakti) poetry, made up of two
lines of twenty-four metric beats, divided
unevenly after the eleventh beat. The
metric pattern for the first line is 6+4+1,
with the pattern for the second line
being 6+4+3. The soratha is thus an
inversion of the metrical form doha.
Although the soratha was a common
poetic form, the doha was far more popular and widely used.