Made consisting of
two lines of twenty-four metric beats, split irregularly after the eleventh
beat in northern Indian devotional (bhakti) poetry.
The first line's metric pattern is 6+4+1, whereas the second
line's pattern is 6+4+3.
As a result, the soratha is an inversion of the doha
metrical form.
The doha was significantly more popular and frequently
utilized than the soratha, which was a common poetic form.