Fifty-foot Leprechaun

JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)



Some say he's taller than a mountain
Sprouting ginger red hair under black hat
Seen only by crawlers drinking from beer fountain
After every pub visit and not before that

I don't know if overindulgence of Guinness
Results in distorted drunk vision
But on Saint Patrick's Day I have to guess
Fifty-foot Leprechaun is an Irish superstition

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Magical mystical poetry.

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Written on March 07, 2024

Submitted on March 07, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XAXA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 338
Words 58
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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