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Guess the rhyme device

October 21, 2009
Tags: poetry

I cannot rid you of your leer
In any way that's real,
Unless across the room I leap
And face from bone I peel.
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He was a roustabout, a rake,
The spurner of her care.
She left the state, at any rate,
Herself from him to tear.

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Both of these poems employ the same poetical device in the rhyme scheme. What is it?