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Renga was a popular poetry format in Old Japan, and was actually the precursor to haiku. A renga poem is composed by two or more poets, each taking tutrns adding two or three-line verses to the poem. Stretching however long you wish: from a dozen verses to several hundred. The idea is to create the element of change, by every two verses adjacent verses being connected in some fashion, while NOT being connected to the verse written before THAT. Renga also goes through all the seasons.
To better understand this concept, read this link that I followed through. It's actually considered a "poetry game" ... http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Haikai-(Collaborative-Poetry-Game)
Can you name the connections between two adjacent verses (there's also a connection between the first and last verses))