Lai Nouveau
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic | | |
| Description: | | Related to the Lai, the Lai Nouveau has a similar pattern, but uses the first two "a" rhymes as refrains in
subsequent verses, much like the villanelle. The lai nouveau always ends with the first two lines reversed. It can be any number of stanzas. | | |
| Origin: | | French | | |
| Schematic: | | Sample four stanza scematic:
xxxxA1
xxxxA2
xb
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb
xxxxa
xxxxa
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb or xc
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb or xc
xxxxa
xxxxA1
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb or xd
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb or xd
xxxxa
xxxxA2
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb or xe
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb or xe
xxxxA2
xxxxA1 | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 8 | | |
| See Also: | | Lai | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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