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Villanelle vs Pantoum - What's the difference?

villanelle | pantoum |

As nouns the difference between villanelle and pantoum

is that villanelle is a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes while pantoum is a poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.

villanelle

English

(wikipedia villanelle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (poetry) a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.

    • Derived terms

    * villanellist

    pantoum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia pantoum)
  • A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.