and treat any kind of topic from the political, historical, satirical and allegorical to the humorous. The poem could be in any kind of genre, narrative, epic, elegiac, lyrical, etc. This kind of word game is not for the faint of heart or the rank beginner. A further challenge calls for the second couplet and the third couplet to be parallel for word for word in a way that satisfies both the tone patterns and the ideas behind the words themselves. The poet must set the tone and mood in the exposition of the setting, expand with details on the theme, discuss the theme, and wraps up, all in fifty-six words. Its brevity and challenges are among some reasons why the form is enjoying popularity till the present day. The preferred form is the bound verse form called thất ngôn bát cú (seven words in eight lines) structured in four couplets dating back to the Tang Dynasty. One of the pleasures and challenges of writing Vietnamese poetry consists in a group project in which the participants, either in person or in absentia, each contribute a poem that must follow the same rhyme scheme as the lead poem, and treat more or less the same topic. A Paradigm of Vietnamese Responsive Poetry:
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