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In the poem "Dover Beach" what is this poem's rhyme theme?

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Can you please show it to me?

What does it tell you? 

I know Arnold only uses rhyme for special emphasis and I need to pay special attention to the last four lines of the poem but it is still seems to be over my head.

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  1. Do you mean rhyme scheme, rather than theme?  The last 4 lines seem to be:

    Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

    And we are here as on a darkling plain

    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

    Where ignorant armies clash by night.

    The rhyme scheme there would be A-A-B-B (because the first two lines rhyme, and the second two rhyme) -- but the rhyme scheme throughout the whole poem is more complicated than that.

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