Pantoum

1918. Content Warning.
Introduction While going through Vocal's Poetry tags for some reason. Pantoum caught my eye. I thought I would investigate it and the first result is below.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Poets
1914
Introduction Pantoum, a Malaysian poetic form in French and English. The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme (as bcbc, cdcd).
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