pantoum
nounDivide pantoum into syllables:
pan · toum
How to pronounce pantoum:
Definition of pantoum:
- pantoum (noun):
- a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second rhyme of a quatrain recurs as the first in the succeeding quatrain, each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme (as bcbc, cdcd), and the initial rhyme of the series recurs as the second rhyme of the closing quatrain (xaxa)
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