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by happytoexplain 656 days ago
To add to the other replies, here's the English page for rhyming schemes, which calls this pattern "XAXA".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme

A more notable version of the same idea, which includes more unrhymed lines, is double dactyl (XXXA XXXA). Though this is more for poetry/limerick, and not for mnemonics.