Pantoum Poetry
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. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the
closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line
of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.
The design is simple:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8
Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza
then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza
(as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line
of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of
the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is
also the last.
Last stanza:
Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza
example:
Sunset on the Ocean
