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About Poetry Pantoums in Poets Biography & Poetry Resource Directory

The pantoum defined, in our glossary of poetic forms. Victor Hugo imported this Malaysian folk form made of interlocking repeated lines to Western literature & we’ve selected these links to read examples of pantoums in English. Among the most famous examples of the pantoum in French is Charles Baudelaire’s “Harmonie du Soir” from Fleurs du Mal, posted here with four different English translations.

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