pantoum

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The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle.

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  • He wanted one of the verse forms with repeating lines, like a villanelle or a pantoum, to echo the way we inevitably arrive at our future. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
  • The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle. —  LearnHub Activities
  • 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." —  Greenwich Time Most Viewed
  • Some attempts have been made by people like Derik Badman to make visual language pantoum, but by and large no conventionalized tropes have been established. —  COMIXTALK
  • Without the pantoum to guide us, we must find the other structure, we must know the structure that others cannot see, even though they might feel it, like a bulging in the crotch or a gentle opening of lips otherwise kept there. —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
 

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  1. French, from Malay pantun, verse composed using metonymy.
 

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