The last couple of challenges have concentrated on the shape of the poem. I said we were going to change the emphasis a little, so this week’s challenge is going to concentrate on the repetition of an idea in a refrain. Yesterday I posted a quatern. Here, the first lines becomes a refrain that slides through the four stanzas until it becomes the closing line of the poem. There is a slight change of emphasis to the words as the line changes its place in the poem. Today, I’m challenging you to try writing a pantoum, a similar but rather more complicated idea.
A pantoum goes like this:
Arranged in four line stanzas in as many stanzas as you need.
It’s usual for the alternate lines to rhyme, but if you have problems with that, and I know not every likes to use rhyme, just make sure you get a…
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