Miniver Cheevy And The Face In The Mirror

MIniver Cheevy was first published in 1910. Miniver Cheevy is about a hopeless man who fantasises about what might have been if only he had been born earlier in time. The poem, The Face in the Mirror was released in 1971 and was apart of the author's first american collection of stories. I am comparing the poems Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Robinson ,and The Face in the Mirror by Robert Graves because in one poem the main character is lazy and ungrateful, and in the other the main character has fought in war and has been through things as he grows older. I will be comparing the rhyme scheme, structure, and tone.
To start off both poems have a unique rhyme scheme. For example in “The Face in the Mirror” in the first stanza the words “glaring, drooping, inhering, and fighting all rhyme. On the other hand in “Miniver Cheevy” in the first stanza the words “born and scorn” rhyme and the words “seasons and reasons” rhyme. Contrastly, the actual rhyme scheme is different between both poems. “Miniver Cheevy” every stanza has an “ABAB” rhyme scheme where every other line rhymes. “The Face in the Mirror” has an “AABAA” rhyme scheme in its stanzas.

For example in “The Face in the Mirror” the main character is described by being old using the word “Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring From wide, uneven orbits; one brow drooping”. Also in “Miniver Cheevy” he is described as “lean”. The tone of both poems are very different. In “Miniver Cheevy” it seems like the narrator is kind of fed up with Miniver. Examples of this is the fact that he is basically calling him lazy and brings out that he talks the talk but can’t walk the walk, “Miniver coughed, and called it fate, and kept on drinking. The narrator in “The Face in the Mirror” has more of a hopeful tone. An example would be in the last