Analyse Rhyming scheme for this poem

My Papa’s Waltz
BY THEODORE ROETHKE
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.

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The rhyming scheme for this poem is ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH. Each stanza consists of four lines with the first and third lines rhyming, as well as the second and fourth lines rhyming.
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