Read the excerpt from the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza? If you can

Read the excerpt from the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

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