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What rhyme scheme does Anne Bradstreet use in her poetry?

The most common rhyme scheme used by Anne Bradstreet is the couplet, where two successive lines rhyme. For example, in her poem "The Flesh and the Spirit", she writes:

> Let not my body bind my soul,

>Nor fettered lie within the whole.

Here, "soul" rhymes with "whole", creating a couplet. Bradstreet also uses other rhyme schemes, such as the quatrain, where four successive lines rhyme, and the sonnet, a fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.

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