title: Chaupai (poetry)
text: # Chaupai (poetry)
  
  A chaupai (चौपाई) is a quatrain verse of Indian poetry, especially medieval Hindi poetry, that uses a metre of four syllables.
  
  Famous chaupais include those of poet-saint Tulsidas (used in his classical text Ramcharitamanas and poem Hanuman Chalisa) .
  
  Chaupai is identified by a syllable count 16/16, counted with a value of 1 in case of Hrasva (short sounding letter) and 2 in case of Dirgha (long sounding letter).
  
  ## Examples
  
  Some of the famous 40 chaupais (known as "chalisa");
  
  * Hanuman Chalisa
  * Ganesh Chalisa
  * Shiv Chalisa
  