E. E Robinson's 'Miniver Cheevy'

Not being a huge poetry reader, this was my first experience with either A.E Robinson and E.E Cummings Robinson’s poem “Miniver Cheevy” focuses on a man born in the wrong time-period. Miniver is man who enjoys the more intellectual subjects in life such as classical Greek tragedies and renaissance writings but is poor and from an area that does not find enjoyment in the same subjects as him. Eventually, Miniver accepts his fate and “kept on drinking” (729). Robinson’s poem is written in a more classical format with a nice rhythm running throughout the poem. When this poem is read aloud it has a song-like swing between the stanzas. Most the rhymes in the poem are straight rhymes with a few slant rhymes sprinkled in it also.
Now the second poem,