What is the structure of the new colossus?

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"The New Colossus" is a Petrarchan Sonnet composed of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, with an octave (eight-line section) followed by a sestet (six-line section). The poem follows the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA for the octave and either CDECDE or CDCDCD for the sestet.

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