Whiz! Life’s A Snake & Ladder Biz: (Luc Bat) Poem by Harindhar Reddy

Description: Luc bat means six-eight, and is a syllabic form alternating lines of six syllables and eight syllables. It uses a kind of falling/climbing rhyme where a rhyme sound first shows up as the eighth syllable of an eight syllable line, then at the end of the next six-syllable line, then as the sixth syllable of the next eight-syllable line, which starts the cycle again with its eighth-syllable rhyme. The form interlocks and can go on for any number of couplets, finally interlocking back to the beginning.

Origin: Vietnamese


Schematic: Here's a sample ten-line schematic:

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