Vietnamese poetry Vietnamese poetry Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include "six-eight, "double-seven six-eight", and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five syllables each line for eight lines." More recently there have been "new poetry" and "free poetry". With the exception of free poetry, a form with no distinct structure, other forms all have a certain structure. The tightest and most
Edmund Clerihew Bentley He died in 1956 in London at the age of 80. His son Nicolas Bentley was a famous illustrator. Phonographic recordings of his work "Recordings for the Blind" are heard in the film "Places in the Heart", by the character Mr. Will. G. K. Chesterton dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, "The Man Who Was Thursday", to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a school friend. While he is best known for his crime fiction and clerihews, Bentley also wrote at least one science fiction short story. This is the recently re-discovered "Flying Visit", published in the [London] "Evening Standard" on