Luc-Bat (six-eight)

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Luc-Bat is a Vietnamese form consisting of alternating lines of six and eight syllables; the end-rhymes of each pair of eight-syllable and six syllable lines are echoed by an internal rhyme in the next line, positioned at the sixth syllable; a new rhyme then begins at the eighth syllable.

Here's an example:

Prologue and Opening of Chapter One of
Kim-Van-Kieu (the Tale of Kieu)
Nguyen Du (1765-1820; tr. John Drury)

In life, a century's sum,
Talent and fate may come to blows.
You pass through ebbs and flows,
Sickened by what is going on.
Something gained, something gone,
Fair cheeks are set upon by spite.
Manuscripts by lamplight
And bamboo texts relate the Ming
Period of Kia-Tsing
When peace was prevailing among
The people. In the Vuong
Family there was a young man, last
Son of a clerk whose modest
But literary past he knew,
And daughters named Thuy-Kieu
And Thuy-Van, both slim, beautiful,
In their two ways equal.

Excerpted from The Poetry Dictionary by John Drury.

Here's something I found online I thought might help you better understand where your rhymes are supposed to go.

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O.O.O.O.O.a.O.b.
O.O.O.O.O.b.
O.O.O.O.O.b.O.c.
O.O.O.O.O.c.
O.O.O.O.O.c.O.d.
O.O.O.O.O.d.
O.O.O.O.O.d.O.e.
O.O.O.O.O.e.
O.O.O.O.O.e.O.f.
O.O.O.O.O.f.
O.O.O.O.O.f.O.etc.