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What is the rhyme scheme of the poem Night Journey?

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem Night Journey?

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  1. The poet has written this poem using a free verse style. It consists  of 27 lines. Though the rhyme scheme is not regular throughout the poem, the poet has used different patterns of rhyme schemes. The rhyme scheme of the first six lines is ABBBAC. It is called cinquain. The next six lines follow the rhyme pattern of DEFCDE. The  following four lines follow the pattern of a quatrain, that is, ABAB or ABBC. And, the last four lines of the poem follow the pattern of ABCB.

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