Creative Challenge ~ 149 ~ Allure

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Pantoum
The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines 
of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a 
new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing 
quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.

The design is simple:
 
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
 
Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8
 
Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and 
fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of 
the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first 
line of the poem is also the last.
 
Last stanza:

Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza

The Peacock

 

Over time your glorious plumage has become most symbolic

As your praises are sung throughout different culture

In present time as well as historic

 Revered by mankind, many folk you allure

 

As your praises are sung throughout different culture

Myth prevails along with sacred writings and semiotics

Revered by mankind, many folk you allure

How much is truth and how much is pure rhetoric

 

 

Myth prevails along with sacred writings and semiotics

In present time as well as historic

Revered by mankind many folk you allure

Over time your glorious plumage has become most symbolic

 

Milli 11

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