As for the poetry competitions these societies sponsor, because the topics are limited and everyone brings in reference books from which they borrow extensively, critics have been known to carp that "the poems sometimes end up sounding all alike."
至於詩會所做的擊缽詩，因為題目有限定，大家又常帶著參考書東拼西湊，「作成的詩有時長得像兄弟同款模樣，差不多是同一個聲音」，有人批評說。