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The Lai is an ancient French narrative form of poetry. The structure of each stanza consists of nine lines with syllable pattern of 5, 5, 2, 5, 5, 2, 5, 5, 2 and rhyme scheme of a, a, b, a, a, b, a, a, b, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/686-lai-family-of-forms-lai-lai-nouveauky...

https://dversepoets.com/2019/04/25/poetry-form-lai-and-lai-nouveau/

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