The Junior God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKLKMNMO PQPQKHKH| The Junior God looked from his place | A |
| In the conning towers of heaven | B |
| And he saw the world through the span of space | A |
| Like a giant golf ball driven | B |
| And because he was bored as some gods are | C |
| With high celestial mirth | D |
| He clutched the reins of a shooting star | C |
| And he steered it down to earth | D |
| - | |
| The Junior God 'mid leaf and bud | E |
| Passed on with a weary air | F |
| Till lo he came to a pool of mud | E |
| And some hogs were rolling there | F |
| Then in he plunged with gleeful cries | G |
| And down he lay supine | H |
| For they had no mud in paradise | I |
| And they likewise had no swine | H |
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| The Junior God forgot himself | J |
| He squelched mud through his toes | K |
| With the careless joy of a wanton boy | L |
| His reckless laughter rose | K |
| Till tired at last in a brook close by | M |
| He washed off every stain | N |
| Then softly up to the radiant sky | M |
| He rose a god again | O |
| - | |
| The Junior God now heads the roll | P |
| In the list of heaven's peers | Q |
| He sits in the House of High Control | P |
| And he regulates the spheres | Q |
| Yet does he wonder do you suppose | K |
| If even in gods divine | H |
| The best and wisest may not be those | K |
| Who have wallowed awhile with the swine | H |
Robert William Service
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