Practicing pantoum for "Stretch Your Style". |
Dragons in the clouds Fashioned from iridescent mist With sunbeam shrouds Fantasy secretly kissed Fashioned from iridescent mist Singular as snowflakes Fantasy secretly kissed Swift as heartbreaks Singular as snowflakes Delicate rainbows Swift as heartbreaks Hiding in lightning shadows Subtle as rainbows With sunbeam shrouds Hiding in lightning shadows Dragons in the clouds _____________________________________________________________________ Poetry form source: http://members.cox.net/berniehpoetry/type/pantoum.html Pantoum 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 |