Pantoum:
The pantoum comes to us from Malayan poetry. The Western (English) version of the pantoum is a poem of indefinite length made up of stanzas that have four lines. The formula comes in where lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are repeated as lines 1 and 3 of athe following stanza:
First Stanza
Line #1
Line #2
Line #3
Line #4
Second Stanza
Line #1 (same as
line #2 above)
Line #2
Line #3 (same as line #4 above)
Line #4
To see an example of a pantoum, click here.
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