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What is the rhyme scheme of the poem When I Was Fair and Young?

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem When I Was Fair and Young?

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  1. The poem “When I was fair and young” has AABB rhyme scheme. The same rhyme scheme is followed throughout the poem. The two lines form a closed rhyming couplet.

    When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.

    Of many was I sought their mistress for to be.

    But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore:

    Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more.

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