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The Song Thất Lục Bát (literally "double seven, six eight") is a Vietnamese form, which consists of a quatrain of two seven-syllable lines, followed by a six-syllable line and an eight-syllable line (these last two lines form a Lục bát couplet). Each line requires certain syllables to exhibit a "flat" or "sharp" pitch. Lines and stanzas are linked in a complex rhyme scheme.

•	•	♯	•	♭	•	♯A
•	•	♭	•	♯A	•	♭B
•	♭	•	♯	•	♭B
•	♭	•	♯	•	♭B	•	♭C

•	•	♯	•	♭C	•	♯D
•	•	♭	•	♯D	•	♭E
•	♭	•	♯	•	♭E
•	♭	•	♯	•	♭E	•	♭F

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• = any syllable; ♯ = trắc (sharp) syllable; ♭ = bằng (flat) syllable; ♭A = bằng (flat) syllable with "A" rhyme.

♯ and ♭ are used only as handy mnemonic symbols; no connection with music should be inferred.

In Vietnamese, the form uses an internal rhyme scheme that is almost impossible to replicate in English successfully. As a result, English versions of the form give the first two lines a shared tail rhyme, and turn the last two into a luc bat couplet, where the sixth syllable of the third line rhymes with the sixth syllable of the fourth. When linking multiple stanzas together, the eighth syllable of the fourth line should rhyme with the first two lines of the next stanza.

Examples in Vietnamese include:

Chinh Phụ Ngâm (The Complaint of the Warrior's Wife ) by Ðoàn Thị Ðiểm
Cung Oán Ngâm Khúc (Sadness of the Palace ) by Nguyễn Gia Thiều

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Notes

^ Huynh Sahn Thông: An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, pp 11-14. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

References

Poesie Vietnamienne
Guide to Verse Forms: Song That Luc Bat
Oriental Poetry: Song That Luc Bat (found under "Luc Bat")

[1] Huynh Sahn Thông: An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, pp 11-14. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

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