What is the meter, the rhyme scheme and the form of Robert Frost's "Desert Places?"

In Robert Frost's "Desert Places," the rhyme scheme is
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is what the author uses to create a pattern of rhyme. In this case,
Frost sticks to that pattern throughout the poem. The rhyme occurs with the last word of
the line, so to chart the rhyme scheme, one must look to the
sound of the last word in
each line of the stanza. In this poem the first two
lines and the last line in each four-line stanza rhyme with each other. For example, in
the first stanza, the last word of three of the four lines rhyme, with the words "fast,"
"past" and "last" (the sound represented by the letter "A"). The last word of the third
line is "snow," and it does not rhyme with the others (so its sound
has been labeled with a "B").

The
meter of a poem is defined as:

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...a rhythm of
accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into
patterns...

The
meter of the poem is iambic pentameter. This means that there are
ten syllables per line with the stress beginning on the second syllable of the line, and
repeating then on every other syllable until the end of the line is
reached.

For example, look at the line
below:

The
woods around it have it—it is
theirs.

The stress begins on
the word "woods" and the pattern continues, resting lastly on the word "theirs." In the
following line, the words are displayed to show where the emphasis (or stress) rests.
Any words with more than one syllable are generally separated with dashes (and there is
only one of these in the line below); the stressed syllable (or
word) is bolded.

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The woods
a-round it have
it—it is
theirs...

The
form used in the poem is called " href="http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic_glossary.html">closed
form" which is...

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A type of form or structure in poetry
characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length,
and metrical pattern [or
meter].

The form is "closed"
because Frost has consistently used the same rhyme scheme throughout the poem. The meter
is the same because Frost uses iambic pentameter continuously in each line, and in
sticking to this pattern of beats (meter), the length of each line is the
same.