Analysis of 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


Scheme ABAB XAXA
Poetic Form Pantoum 
Quatrain 
Metre 111101010 1010111011 11011101110 1010011001011 11111110 010010110 1111011111 10111110010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 338
Words 58
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 29

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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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