Pantoum (with apologies to Mr. Browning)

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Open Poetry #1

Pantoum (with apologies to Mr. Browning)

Sue
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

0 posted 1999-08-18 03:08 PM

See, where my book-mark lands me on the net
Twixt balladeer and chatty poetry-lover
Pantoums I find there - how is this form set?
That's the mad poet; he writes each line twice over,
Because the fool so terribly is smitten
With each bad line he's written

Sue
Member

since 1999-08-04

Posts 383
France

1 posted 1999-08-18 05:14 PM

Perhaps I better explain, the original (written by Robert Browning) goes thus:

Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge
Leans to the field and scatters on the clover
Blossoms and dewdrops - at the bent spray's edge -
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first, fine careless rapture.

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