What is the meter of the couplets in this poem?

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Had we but world enough, and time, 
This coyness, lady, were no crime. 
We would sit down, and think which way 
To walk, and pass our long love's day. 
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; 
And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.


What is the meter of the couplets in this poem?






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