This is an analysis of the poem The Junior God that begins with:

The Junior God looked from his place
In the conning towers of heaven,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ececfbab Xfgfgbgb hfhffbfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01011001 001010010 1110110101 10101110 1011111111 010101 110100101 1110101 01011111 1100101 111100101 1110101 10110101 111101 111110101 1111111 01010101 111101 0010100101 010101 1101100111 1111001 1101001001 110101 01011101 0010101 110010101 1110101 111101101 0100101 011101101 111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Junior God;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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