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What's Wrong With The Pantoum
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Who introduced the pantoum to the west?
Victor Hugo.
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What is the base of the rhyme scheme for a pantoum?
ABAB
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What are the stanzas of a pantoum called?
Quatrains.
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What is wrong with this quatrain: Winter is like a barren desert. Snowing and hailing all day. I wear my woolen sweatshirt. And go in the snow to make snowmen.
"Day" doesn't rhyme with "snowmen."
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What culture is the pantoum derived from?
Malaysian.
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What would be the rhyme scheme for the 3rd line of a pantoum?
1st: ABAB. 2nd: BCBC. 3rd: CDCD
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Where does the 10th line of a pantoum appear again?
The 13th line.
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What is wrong with these quatrains: 1st quatrain - Winter is like a barren desert. Snowing and hailing all day. I wear my woolen sweatshirt. And go in the snow to play. 2nd quatrain - Raining hard all day. Hoping it will stop, I sit inside and drink hot chocolate. I jump in and go PLOP!
Line 5 and Line 7 are new lines, and don't repeat or rhyme.
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What decade did French poets start to write pantoums in?
The 1930s.
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Given the first, second, and third line of a stanza, finish with the correct rhyme scheme and topic: Moonbeams silky as pie. Journeying through the night. On a quest into the sky.
Line 3: Something that rhymes with night.
300
Format a possible second stanza of a pantoum (only the layout, not an actual example).
Line 1: Repeat of line 2. Line 2: New rhyme. Line 3: Repeat of line 4. Line 4: Something rhymes with line 2.
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What is wrong with these quatrains: 1st quatrain - Winter is like a barren desert. Snowing and hailing all day. I wear my woolen sweatshirt. And go in the snow to play. 2nd quatrain - Snowing and hailing all day. Hoping it will stop, I go in the rain to play. I jump in and go BOUNCE!
"Stop" doesn't rhyme with "BOUNCE," and "I go in the rain to play" isn't the same as "I go in the snow to play."
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Name one of the American writers who started to write pantoums.
Donald Justice or Anne Waldman.
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Given the first and second lines of a stanza, write a quatrain with the correct rhyme scheme and topic: The wind is howling, The sky clouding over.
Line 3: Something that rhymes with howling. Line 4: Something that rhymes with over.
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Given the following first quatrain of a pantoum, tell us what lines will be repeated and where they will be repeated: Raindrops racing towards the Earth, Umbrellas open below. Cuddling up beside the hearth, Let's hope there is a rainbow.
The first line will be repeated at the last line of the pantoum. The second line will be the first line of the next paragraph. The fourth line will be the third line of the next paragraph.
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What is wrong with the following quatrains: 1st quatrain - Winter is like a barren desert. Snowing and hailing all day. I wear my woolen sweatshirt. And go in the snow to play. 2nd quatrain - Raining and hailing all day. Hoping it will stop, I go in the snow to sled. I jump in and go PLOP! LAST quatrain - Hoping it will continue, I wear my silk sweatshirt. I jump in and go PLOP! Winter is like a barren desert.
"Snowing and hailing all day" is not the same as "Raining and hailing all day," "Go in the snow to play" is not the same as "Go in the snow to sled," "Hoping it will stop" is not the same as "Hoping it will continue," and "I wear my woolen sweatshirt" is not the same as "I wear my silk sweatshirt."
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Who published the book called Some Trees, which explained the pantoum and made it popular?
John Ashbery
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If a poem had 27 quatrains (The 27th with no rhyme scheme, due to the ending format), what would be the rhyme scheme of the 26th quatrain?
ZAZA
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What is the layout of the last stanza of a pantoum?
Line 2 of previous stanza. Line 3 of first stanza. Line 4 of previous stanza. Line 1 of first stanza
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What is wrong with the following quatrains: 1st quatrain - Winter is like a barren lizard. Snowing and hailing all day. I wear my woolen sweatshirt. And go in the snow to play. 2nd quatrain - Winter is like a barren lizard. Hoping it will stop, I go in the snow to play. I jump in and go POW! LAST quatrain - Hoping it will stop, Hoping it will stop. I jump in and go PLOP! Winter is like a barren desert.
"Lizard" doesn't rhyme with "sweatshirt," Line 1 of the second stanza is not a repeat of the 2nd line, "Lizard" doesn't rhyme with "play," "Stop" doesn't rhyme with "POW," The 2nd line of the last stanza isn't a repeat of the 3rd line of the first stanza, and the last line of the pantoum is not a repeat of the first line.