The form is a Lento, two quatrains (4-line stanzas), first words in each quatrain rhyme (or in this case, near-rhyme), end words in 2nd and 4th lines rhyme (abcb):
To Len: a Lento
Could I ever forget our stolen weekends:
good morning omelets--artichoke hearts, feta--
would start the day's work on my dissertation,
nude interludes summing ecstasy's data.
Love and psychology gripped us for seven years
of mutual philosophy and passion's desires,
tough pleas from his nuclear family rising
above needs my own yearning required.
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