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  1. A lai was a song form composed in northern Europe, mainly France and Germany, from the 13th to the late 14th century.
  2. A poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern. The third line in each unit consists of two syllables only.
A tricky form, the lai,
as it changes as it goes by,
you see.
Stanzas change form, and I,
get confused when e'er it I try,
to read.
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