📚 Pantoum, noun. 🔉 /panˈtuːm/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A Malay verse form, also imitated in French and English, with a rhyme scheme abab. ❗️ Examples: 1. Smart's the word for pantoums and haiku. 2. We could end as a line of pantoum. 3. His poetry is characterized by its openness to the vagaries of consciousness, its wry, beguiling lyricism, and its innovative use of forms such as the pantoum and the sestina. 4. Fascinated throughout his career by venerable poetic fixed forms such as the sonnet, the triolet, and the Malayan pantoum, Jouet chose to invent a new fixed form. 5. Their fourth exercise/poem was their choice of a form using repetition or refrain: a villanelle, rondeaux, traditional ghazal, glosa, sestina or pantoum. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic