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What type of structure is used in the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"??

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The structure used is a quatrain. This has a rhyme scheme using first and third iambic tetrameter (meaning four beats per line)
The opposite lines ( 2 and 4) are in trimeter with three beats for each line.
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