faux-lai (pronounced foe-lay, remarkably close to folly) is a premie 'form' that has emerged from of my egregious error in attempting to write my first 'VIRELAI', a particular variety of a form of units of three lines (often) grouped into stanzas of nine lines called 'LAI' ... now posted at this link (8/06).
So I offer this meagre explanation of 'faux-lai' at Liz's suggestion... but about 7 months delinquent
:The formula for 'faux-lai' is tercets (units of three lines) with syllables 5/5/2 and rhyming thus:
xxxxa
xxxxa
xb
xxxxb
xxxxb
xc
xxxxc
xxxxc
xd
xxxxd
xxxxd
x....z
(for as many tercets as desired)
xxxxz
xxxxz
xa
xxxxa
xb
xxxxb
xxxxb
xc
xxxxc
xxxxc
xd
xxxxd
xxxxd
x....z
(for as many tercets as desired)
xxxxz
xxxxz
xa
...becoming a kind of circuit or necklace with the final stanza a clasp linking up with the first. ]
Here is the only existing 'faux-lai' of which I'm aware thus far:
Word Punch
Staring at my screen
painfully routine…
no words
fleeting thoughts in sherds
flitting off like birds
on wing…
kite that snaps its string
falling, waffling...
then gone.
Stumbling out at dawn,
dew upon my lawn
in fog,
through slick mud I slog;
brain soon slips a cog...
scarunch.
Vision out to lunch;
lyrics with no punch
careen.
© MLee Dickens'son 13 Jan 2006
Staring at my screen
painfully routine…
no words
fleeting thoughts in sherds
flitting off like birds
on wing…
kite that snaps its string
falling, waffling...
then gone.
Stumbling out at dawn,
dew upon my lawn
in fog,
through slick mud I slog;
brain soon slips a cog...
scarunch.
Vision out to lunch;
lyrics with no punch
careen.
© MLee Dickens'son 13 Jan 2006