Wednesday, December 9, 2009

HOW IT WORKS--Pantoum

Wrtie 10 lines of poetry and number each lines.

Transcribe them in 5 stanzes as follows:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4

Line 2
Line 5
Line 4
Line 6

Line 5
Line 7
Line 6
Line 8

Line 7
Line 9
Line 8
Line 10

Line 9
Line 1
Line 10
Line 3

Now you have a pantoum! More later about subtlety-