The pantun (Jawi: ڤنتون) is a Malay poetic form. The pantun originated as a traditional oral form of expression. The first examples to be recorded appear in the 15th century in the Malay Annals and the Hikayat Hang Tuah. The most common theme is love. In its most basic form the pantun consists of a quatrain which employs an abab rhyme scheme....
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Mayan antecedent of the pantoum, with a single quatrain, rhyming aabb, couplets that at first reading seem to have nothing to do with one another. For example, Professors talk and talk and talk, a lot; Their students mumble, stare, and doze, somewhat. Leno and Letterman go head-to-head On TV just before we go to bed. (I.L.)
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Mayan antecedent of the pantoum, with a single quatrain, rhyming aabb, couplets that at first readin
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