Friday, March 19, 2010

Notes on Pantoums

Pantoum is a very tricky form of poetry that includes no syllable patterns and optional rhyme patterns. Each line of a Pantoum is repeated exactly once. Consider the following:

1
2
3
4

2
5
4
6

5
7
6
8

7
1
8
3

Notice that each number appears only twice. For example, both lines that are numbered "7" have the exact same sentence/phrase, with possible different punctuation. They end up getting really tricky.

1 comment:

  1. I encourage you to try it yourself and post any outcomes here.

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