The club transitions from studying the content of classical poetry to interrogating its structural mechanics. Over sixteen lessons, they examine the rigorous, jewel-box constraints of Tang Dynasty Jueju and Lüshi. They trace the evolution of literature into the Song Dynasty, exploring how the irregular 'Ci' form emerged from entertainment quarters to capture breathless emotion. They confront the brutal Mongol conquest of the Yuan Dynasty, which forced scholars to channel their art into street songs and theater. Finally, they step into the 20th century, witnessing the collapse of imperial forms and the birth of modern free verse, learning that the shape of a poem is fundamentally the shape of its era's psychology.