Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A verse form composed of quatrains in which the second and fourth lines are repeated as the first and third lines of the following quatrain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pantun .
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- noun A
poem , similar to avillanelle , that comprises a series ofquatrains , the second and fourth lines of eachstanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was full of fascinating bits I kept wanting to go back to, and a pantoum is a form where the second and fourth lines of the first stanza become the 1st and 3rd of the next, the new 2nd and 4th becoming the next 1st and 3rd and so on.
Poetry Friday: Louise Erdrich Learning Ojibiwemowin fusenumber8 2007
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The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle.
LearnHub Activities 2008
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With older students, he led exercises meant to get them emulating specific forms, like the "pantoum," which includes four-line stanzas, or the three-line stanzas of the "villanelle."
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This poem is a pantoum, a form of poetry that repeats certain lines in a particular order.
Poetry: "Ocean Meditation" - The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn 2009
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I have also written a pantoum about scuba diving which explains how peaceful it is for me.
Writing Tips: 7 Lessons from Scuba Diving - The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn 2009
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Today, the poet wants to compose a pantoum about the Mariel exodus, about his voyage from Cuba to Key West on a tugboat piloted by deranged exiles.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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I respond with a clumsy pantoum of my own, and we become a couple.
What They Meant 2010
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He takes a last stab at writing his pantoum: As the island fades / I leave behind departure itself.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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Great Regulars: It seems to combine elements both from that safe-as-houses mediaeval form, the sestina, and from the intricate pantoum: its accumulative structure also suggests folk-tales such as The House That Jack Built.
Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Although by the time of publication the ghazal and the pantoum had already been used and would become much more so in later years particularly as a result of the influence of Ashbery regarding the latter, there is no mention of these forms.
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO EILEEN 2009
rolig commented on the word pantoum
Also spelled (from the original Malay, it seems), pantun. "A verse form adopted into English and French consisting of quotations with an abab rhyme scheme, linked by repeated lines." (From the OAD.) Baudelaire was one of its practitioners. Thanks, bilby!
December 7, 2007
thtownse commented on the word pantoum
Are we a Rush fan by any chance???
December 7, 2007
rolig commented on the word pantoum
sorry, thtownse? why? which Rush? Limbaugh? God no. I don't even live in the States.
December 7, 2007