pantun — meaning in English

English meaning

• poem noun A piece of writing arranged with attention to rhythm, sound, and often rhyme, expressing ideas or feelings in a condensed, imaginative way.

Senses

pantun is used for these senses in English:

• pantoum A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
• poem A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
• quatrain A stanza of four lines.

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