Can someone help me please I will mark brainless !!

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

In the poem i felt a funeral, in my brain what rhyme scheme does the poet use and how does it contribute to the poem?

Assuming that the character maydelle is a symbol what does she most plausibly represent