Here's an example from the first stanza:
* The art of losing isn't hard to master (A)
* so many things seem lost and gone forever: (B)
* I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, (A)
* some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. (B)
This consistent rhyme scheme, along with the poem's form and tone, contributes to the poem's sense of calm and acceptance, even as it deals with the difficult topic of loss.