Joint moment $\tau(XYXYXY)$ in terms of moments of $X$,$Y$

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Terry Tao RMT book has the following formula for joint moment of freely independent random variables $X,Y$ in Section 2.5

$$\tau(XYXY)=\tau(X)^2\tau(Y^2)+\tau(X^2)\tau(Y)^2-\tau(X)^2\tau(Y)^2$$

Exercise 2.5.17 then asks to prove that this is possible for any joint moment. Is there an easy to describe algorithm for actually constructing such formulas? IE

How would I get $\tau(XYXYXY)$?