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What is the rhyme scheme of the poem Miniver Cheevy?

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem Miniver Cheevy?

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    The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAB, alternatively rhyming. It consists of eight quatrains having a regular rhyme scheme. The first three lines of the poem have eight syllables each and the next line follows with five syllables in it. The poem is in iambic tetrameter and the last line of each stanza is in iambic dimeter and is in fact, hypermetrical.  Miniver Cheevy Summary

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