Analysis of The Junior God
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
The Junior God looked from his place
In the conning towers of heaven,
And he saw the world through the span of space
Like a giant golf-ball driven.
And because he was bored, as some gods are,
With high celestial mirth,
He clutched the reins of a shooting star,
And he steered it down to earth.
The Junior God, 'mid leaf and bud,
Passed on with a weary air,
Till lo! he came to a pool of mud,
And some hogs were rolling there.
Then in he plunged with gleeful cries,
And down he lay supine;
For they had no mud in paradise,
And they likewise had no swine.
The Junior God forgot himself;
He squelched mud through his toes;
With the careless joy of a wanton boy
His reckless laughter rose.
Till, tired at last, in a brook close by,
He washed off every stain;
Then softly up to the radiant sky
He rose, a god again.
The Junior God now heads the roll
In the list of heaven's peers;
He sits in the House of High Control,
And he regulates the spheres.
Yet does he wonder, do you suppose,
If, even in gods divine,
The best and wisest may not be those
Who have wallowed awhile with the swine?
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFXGXG XHXHIXIX JKJKHGHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 001010110 0110110111 10101110 0011111111 110101 110110101 0111111 01011101 1110101 111110111 0110101 10111101 011101 11111010 011111 01010101 111111 1010110101 110101 1101100111 1111001 1101101001 110101 01011101 0011101 110011101 011001 111101101 1100101 010101111 111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,139 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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