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Alligator Concentration Camp Lai

Alligator Concentration Camp

Concentration camp
In Everglades damp
Just bad.

Alligator scamp
Even pythons vamp
Quite mad.

Prisoners encamp
Too hot for heat lamp
So sad.

Immigrant bootcamp
Nowhere to decamp
Crash pad.



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The Lai Family of forms are French, 12th century variable forms that share a narrative nature and in all but the Kyrielle, long / short lines. The style of writing is attributed to a French noble woman known as Marie. She has since been named by historians as Marie de France.
• The Lai is a short story in verse. In its strictest form it is a verse form with a rhymed syllabic pattern in three tercets. The elements of the Lai as verse form are:
1. a narrative, tells a story.
2. usually a nonet, 9 lines made up of 3 tercets. It can be a hexastich made up of 2 tercets.(When written in 9 lines is can also be called a Bergerette or a Viralai stanza.)
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme aab aab aab.
4. syllabic, syllables per line are 5-5-2 5-5-2 5-5-2
5. Tradition states that the short line must not be indented; it must be left dressed to the poem, a technique known as "arbre fourchu", (forked tree), meant to suggest the appearance of a tree.