Miniver Cheevy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KDKD LMLM NDND| Miniver Cheevy child of scorn | A |
| Grew lean while he assailed the seasons | B |
| He wept that he was ever born | A |
| And he had reasons | B |
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| Miniver loved the days of old | C |
| When swords were bright and steeds were prancing | D |
| The vision of a warrior bold | C |
| Would set him dancing | D |
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| Miniver sighed for what was not | E |
| And dreamed and rested from his labors | F |
| He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot | E |
| And Priam's neighbors | F |
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| Miniver mourned the ripe renown | G |
| That made so many a name so fragrant | H |
| He mourned Romance now on the town | G |
| And Art a vagrant | H |
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| Miniver loved the Medici | I |
| Albeit he had never seen one | J |
| He would have sinned incessantly | I |
| Could he have been one | J |
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| Miniver cursed the commonplace | K |
| And eyed a khaki suit with loathing | D |
| He missed the mediaeval grace | K |
| Of iron clothing | D |
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| Miniver scorned the gold he sought | L |
| But sore annoyed was he without it | M |
| Miniver thought and thought and thought | L |
| And thought about it | M |
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| Miniver Cheevy born too late | N |
| Scratched his head and kept on thinking | D |
| Miniver coughed and called it fate | N |
| And kept on drinking | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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