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Poetic Forms – Part 5 English 12 - Tolley Pantoum, Villanelle, Rondeau Pantoum Background: originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or sung. However… Pantoum Western writers altered and adapted the form. The modern pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of a pantoum is often the same as the first. Pantoum - Example Carolyn Kizer’s Parents Pantoum,” Where did these enormous children come from, ?More ladylike than we have ever been? ?Some of ours look older than we feel. ?How did they appear in their long dresses More ladylike than we have ever been? ?But they moan about their aging more than we do, ?In their fragile heels and long black dresses. ?They say they admire our youthful spontaneity. They moan about their aging more than we do, ?A somber group--why dont they brighten up? ?Though they say they admire our youthful spontaneity?They beg us to be dignified like them. Pantoum Effect: subtle shifts in meaning that can occur as repeated phrases are revised with different punctuation and thereby given a new context or tone. The pantoums interlocking pattern of rhyme and repetition fills the poem with echoes. Causes slowed effect, deeper reflection. Pantoum Villanelle highly structured nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poems two concluding lines. Villanelle Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2 Villanelle Villanelle Rondeau Background: The rondeau bega