found: Baldick, C. The Oxford dict. of literary terms, 2008(pantoum (pantun) A verse form of Malay origin, employing quatrains rhyming abab and repetition of whole lines so that the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next, and in the final quatrain the poem's first line appears as the final line, its third line as the second. Unlike the villanelle and the triolet, which use similar kinds of repetition, it has no fixed number of lines. The form, originally known as the pantun, was discovered and domesticated by French poets of the 19th century, under the spelling 'pantoum', which has become standard in English.)
found: The Princeton encyc. of poetry and poetics, c2012(Pantun (Eng. and Fr. pantoum or pantoun). In contemp. poetry, the pantun is a poem of indeterminate length composed of quatrains in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern breaks in the final stanza, whose second and fourth lines are recurrences of the first and third lines of the first stanza; thus, the pantun begins and ends with the same line. The pattern that Westerners associated with the pantun is highly atypical of the Malay-language verse form. The Malay-lang. pantun can have six to twelve lines, but it is usually in four lines consisting of two end-stopped cross-rhyme couplets.)
found: Cuddon, J. A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 1998(pantuns: A verse form of Malayan origin. A poem of no determinate length, composed of quatrains with internal assonance and rhyming abab. The second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the next. In the last quatrain the first line of the poem re-appears as the last, and the third line as the second. The form was introduced into Western poetry by Ernest Fouinet in the 19th c. Some distinguished French poets used it, notably Victor Hugo)
