Rasa Sayang

"Rasa Sayang" (pronounced [ˈrasa 'sajaŋ], literally "loving feeling") or "Rasa Sayange" (pronounced [ˈrasa 'sajaŋɛ]) in Indonesia is a folk song from the Malay Archipelago, popular in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Being a pantun, "Rasa Sayang" has an alternating rhyming scheme of ABAB with equal syllabic lengths to maintain rhythm, with the sole exception being the opening verse, which has a different syllabic length with the other verses. Divided into two, the first and second line are often unrelated from the third and fourth, the first and second line is used to establish a rhyming pattern while the third and fourth line is the desired message to be given to the listener.

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