The Luc Bat
The luc bat is a Vietnamese form of
poetry. It means simply 'six eight' due to its pattern of syllables per line:
6,8,6,8,6,8, etc. There is no set length to the luc bat, so it can be as long
or as short as you'd like. But what really makes this form interesting is the
rhyming structure, which sounds a little complicated but is easy to grasp in
practice. The sixth syllable of every eight-syllable line rhymes with the last
syllable of the six-syllable line before it, which in turn rhymes with the eighth
syllable of the eight-syllable line before it. When the end of the poem
is reached, the last line jumps back and rhymes with the first. Each of the
following luc bats relate to the assigned Shiriyah theme for the grade.
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