pantoum: Meaning and Definition of

pan•toum

Pronunciation: (pan-tm'), [key]
— n.
  1. a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
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