The song is written in the form of a pantoum.

Among other poetic forms, he used the pantoum.

This form of pantun has exercised the most influence on Western literature where it is known as the pantoum.

The pantoum is a form of poetry similar to a villanelle in that there are repeating lines throughout the poem.

The pantoum is derived from the pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quatrains.

The pantoum "recipe" is as follows:

"Lower Manhattan Pantoum"

A four-stanza pantoum is common, and in the final stanza, you could simply repeat lines one and three from the first stanza, or write new lines.

"Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire (imperfect pantoum, in French; also includes four English translations)

Utilizing such traditional forms as the English sonnet, pantoum, villanelle, sestina and haiku, this book spotlights Albrizio's ability to master form without losing the poem's accessibility.

There is also the imperfect pantoum, in which the final stanza differs from the form stated above, and the second and fourth lines may be different from any preceding lines.

Stuart Dischell published a well-received pantoum, "She Put on Her Lipstick in the Dark," in the December, 2007 issue of The Atlantic.

A pantoum is a Malaysian verse form of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of one stanza are the first and third lines of the next.

Since so many poets now come out of graduate writing programs, they tend to fill up their first collections with the more successful assignments from Forms Workshop: a sestina, a pantoum, a villanelle.

"I Am Going to Like It Here" by Oscar Hammerstein (and Richard Rodgers) (imperfect pantoum from the musical Flower Drum Song)

It is first of all due to the success of this work, and to a misprint (pantoum for pantoun), that the pantoum owes its individualization in French poetics.

American poets such as John Ashbery, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Justice ("Pantoum of the Great Depression"), Carolyn Kizer, and David Trinidad have done work in this form.

The technical performances in this book include a sestina, a pantoum (a Malay verse form), various song forms with refrains and 23 pages of rhymed haikus called "90 Instant Messages to Tom Moore."

In the scherzolike Pantoum movement, which has been the undoing of many a pianist, Mr. Hodgkinson executed the melodic leaps, chordal sputterings and scampering runs with uncommon clarity and crisp, rhythmic bite.

During the workshop, Mr. Beavers, who also serves as acting director of Penn's Center for Africana Studies, plans to have participants write in forms, like the well-known villanelle and the lesser-known Malaysian pantoum.

The spring 2010 issue of the online literary journal BigCityLit features a pantoum by American poet Joel Allegretti called "The Belles of Grey Gardens," which is made up entirely of dialogue from the Maysles' documentary.

The first chapbook, written by Gaiman, comprised "Wall: A Prologue" short story, "Septimus' Triolet" poem, "Song Of The Little Hairy Man", and "The Old Warlock's Reverie: A Pantoum" poem.

Georges Voisset explains and illustrates in his book the filiation from the Malay pantun to the pantoum "à la française" and its internationalization, after this form was revealed to Victor Hugo by a young romantic orientalist, Ernest Fouinet.

Hammerstein wrote Mei Li's first act song, "I Am Going to Like It Here", in a Malaysian poetic form called pantoum in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the next.

"Ripple Effect" offers a broad sampling of Equi's career, 159 poems , proving her as capable of a memo rable four-line epigram as she is of an elegant pantoum , jokey self-interview , surreal meditation on the color yellow or tender lyric sequence .