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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Quatrain meter in the poetry of India and Pakistan}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Chaubola&#039;&#039;&#039; ([[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]: चौबोला or چوبولا) is a [[quatrain]] [[Meter (poetry)|meter]] in the poetry of [[North India]] and [[Pakistan]], often employed in folk songs.<br /> <br /> ==Example==<br /> In one sequence in the [[Urdu]] opera &#039;&#039;[[Inder Sabha]]&#039;&#039;, [[Indra]], the king of the gods, enters his court and announces in a &#039;&#039;chaubola&#039;&#039;&lt;ref name=&quot;ref10leyuj&quot;&gt;{{Citation | title=Changing South Asia: City and culture | author=Kenneth Ballhatchet, David D. Taylor | year=1984 | publisher=Centre of South Asian Studies, The School of Oriental &amp; African Studies, University of London, 1984 | isbn=9789622340213 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYFCAAAAYAAJ | quote=&#039;&#039;... Raja Indar at first performs a dance and then sings a chaubola, in which he proclaims, Raja hun main quam ka ...&#039;&#039;}}&lt;/ref&gt; -<br /> <br /> {|<br /> ![[Urdu]]<br /> !Transcription<br /> !Translation<br /> |-<br /> |<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;راجا هوں میں قوم کا اور اِندر میرا نام&lt;br&gt;<br /> بِن پریوں کی دید کے مُجهے نهیں آرام&lt;br&gt;<br /> میرا سنگلدیپ میں مُلکوں مُلکوں راج&lt;br&gt;<br /> جی میرا هے چاہتا کی جلسہ دیکهوں آج&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> |<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;Raja hun main qaum ka aur Indar mera naam&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;Bin pariyon ki deed ke mujhe nahin araam&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;Mera Sangaldip mein mulkon-mulkon raj&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;Ji mera hai chahta ki jalsa dekhun aaj&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> |<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;I am king, and my name is Indar&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;Accustomed to the company of fairies&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;My rule stretches across the nations of Sangaldip&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &#039;&#039;And today, I wish to see a spectacle!&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> {{Poetic forms}}<br /> [[Category:Stanzaic form]]<br /> [[Category:Indian poetics]]<br /> [[Category:Poetic rhythm]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Poetry-stub}}</div>

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