Analysis of Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of the warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
Miniver sighed for what was not,
And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam's neighbors.
Miniver mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.
Mininver loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.
Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the medieval grace
Of iron clothing.
Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
And thought about it.
Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KDKD LMLM NDND |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111 111101010 11111101 01110 110111 110101010 010101001 11110 111111 010101110 1111010 0110 110101 1111001110 11011101 01010 110010 010111011 11110100 11111 11010 010101110 1100101 11010 110111 110111011 110101 01011 11111 11101110 110111 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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