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Arousal at the Beach
Heart drawn in the sand,
deeply with my hand.
She’s mine.
During picnic grand,
everything as planned.
Drank wine.
Bright sun made us tanned,
her touch made me stand,
confined.
© 2011 Philip N. Carcione
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Author's Notes/Comments:
The Lai
The Lai, a French syllabic verse form, is a poem of one or more stanza of nine short lines that include two rhymes.
The stanza of the Virelay, also a French syllabic verse form, uses the same rhymes and syllabic count (5-5-2 repeated 3 times) as the Lai. The difference is that the long lines of the each stanza after the first rhyme with the short lines of the immediately preceding stanza. The interlocking continues for the length of the poem, until the final stanza whose short lines rhyme with the long lines of the first stanza. This shows some relationship to the Rubáiyát and to the Terza rima.
The entire form is shown below.
History.
The Lai developed in France.
The features of the Lai are:
* 9 lines.
* Two rhymes, giving the form aabaabaab.
* Lines ending with the 'a' rhyme are five syllables long.
* Lines ending with the 'b' rhyme are two syllables long.
* Rhyme scheme (where a lower-case letter indicates a rhyme with each line designated by the same lower-case letter):
a
a - Rhymes with 1st line.
b
a - Rhymes with 1st line.
a - Rhymes with 1st line.
b - Rhymes with 3rd line.
a - Rhymes with 1st line.
a - Rhymes with 1st line.
b - Rhymes with 3rd line.
