Lai Nouveau is a form of Lai together with Virelai. It is a more difficult form because it has an eight-line stanza where the two first lines are also the refrain which is also used in the end of all following verses. The last verse also includes these two lines, but in opposite order. It is not easy to find a pattern that could last two or more verses. This form looks a lot like villanelle.
Some young poets have started experimenting with Lai Nouveau in the last years together with other forgotten forms that they want to help bring alive.

Here are a few samples of Lai Nouveau:

Journey

Spring days are ahead;
young ones to be fed.
Perhaps,
I am to be led,
despite what is said.
Let lapse
hate, the journey’s wed
to our minds instead.
—- Mike Montreuil 26 March 2006

Consider dying.
Consider living.
Why not?
See interfering
as crime and peering
besought
seldom by one’s fling.
Remember to ring

to avoid stinging
who you’d be pleasing.
Care wrought,
restrict your dancing.
For fancy glancing
be caught.
For brilliant smiling,
consider dying.

Or with great laughing
learn to be clapping
the hot
healthily climbing
humans now priming
their lot.
When alone feeling,
consider living.

Teach about singing.
Hear the bells ringing.
You bought
into worrying.
Now try reversing,
my tot.
Consider living.
Consider dying.
—-Jan Haag