Exploring Poetic Form: The Pantoum

How repetition and structure can enhance your poetry’s content.

Aaron Meacham
The POM
Published in
3 min readJan 5, 2021

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Forms and styles of poetry change over time, just like any other art. Such hallmarks from the genre’s history like metrical feet and rhyme schemes now tend to feel a bit antiquated. And our modern consumption of brief, accessible instapoetry certainly breaks with the longform, narrative origins of…

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Aaron Meacham
The POM

My name anagrams to “a man becomes.” I love movies and Kurt Vonnegut. I don’t understand how anagrams work.