Lai

Medieval poetic and musical form, cultivated especially among the trouv�res, or poet-musicians, of northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries but also among their slightly earlier, Proven�al-language counterparts, the troubadours, and, called Leich, by the German minnesingers. The lai was a long poem having nonuniform stanzas of about 6 to 16 or more lines of 4 to 8 syllables.