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pantun

[ pan-toon ]

noun

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The pantun is much employed in improvisation, the stanzas being recited alternately by the two taking part.

And spontaneously there rose an antiphonal pantun, or song of war.

Two chief forms of poetry are recognized—the pantun and the shaïr.

The pantun or short proverbial stanza has been already described.

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