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Which rhyme scheme is used in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from if by Rudyard Kipling.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
ОААВААВАА
O AABBCCDD
O ABACADAB
O ABABCDCD

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It is D: ABABCDCD

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ABABCDCD. “ling,” “winnings,” “beginnings” are all A. toss and loss are B. sinew and you are C, and D is gone and on.
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