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What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem (the / indicates the end of the line): oh mother, mother, where is happiness?/ they took my lover's tallness off to war,/ left me lamenting. Now i cannot guess/ what i can use an empty heart-cup for. / he won't be coming back here any more. / some day the war will end, but, oh, i knew/ when he went walking grandly out that door/ that my sweet love would have to be untrue. / would have to be untrue. Would have to court/ coquettish death, whose impudent and strange/ possessive arms and beauty (of a sort)/ can make a hard man hesitate--and change. / and he will be the one to stammer, "yes. "/ oh mother, mother, where is happiness?/.

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abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.abab, bcbc, cdcd, a sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet Answer:

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