Sasha
9 May 2004
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Hey how about adding the Pantoum style
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That's funny, I almost did last series of adds. How about writing up a simple description of it and giving me some good links?
http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=75899
The Pantoum was originally a Malasian form of poetry. It was adopted and adapted by the French and became very popular with them. Fouinet, Hugo and Baudelaire, are amongst the foremost users of this form.
The French liked it probably because of the way the quatrains were linked to each other, which makes it similar to other Fernch forms.
Let's take a look at it.
The Pantoum has a rhyme scheme of, a.b.a.bâ¦b.c.b.c..etc and as can be seen the second and fourth line of the first Stanza, become the first and third lines of the following stanza and so on.
Unlike most of these strict repeating forms there is no set stanza count or need for the last stanza to repeat back to the first. This makes the Pantoum ideal for narratives that demand repetition.
above is from:
http://www.geocities.com/bikies_poetry/Challenge/pantoum.html
The Pantoum was originally a Malasian form of poetry. It was adopted and adapted by the French and became very popular with them. Fouinet, Hugo and Baudelaire, are amongst the foremost users of this form.
The French liked it probably because of the way the quatrains were linked to each other, which makes it similar to other Fernch forms.
Let's take a look at it.
The Pantoum has a rhyme scheme of, a.b.a.bâ¦b.c.b.c..etc and as can be seen the second and fourth line of the first Stanza, become the first and third lines of the following stanza and so on.
Unlike most of these strict repeating forms there is no set stanza count or need for the last stanza to repeat back to the first. This makes the Pantoum ideal for narratives that demand repetition.
above is from:
http://www.geocities.com/bikies_poetry/Challenge/pantoum.html