Hungry Gnome
On a tussock
In the glades of evenstar
Sat a green-faced garden gnome
In a crimson cassock.
Snow was falling
On the lodestone land afar,
Limpid shone moon's glimmer-loam,
Glint-eyed owls were calling.
"Time now", said
To himself our beardy friend
"To nip away a magic night with some
Sweetmeat morsel: sugar bread
Of heaven". He
Pulled from his crimson pocket's end
With dragon-fury rumbling in his tum,
A piece of Christmas pie.
But in a trice,
Gossamer-wings a-flying,
Sat down a crystal Christmas fairy-mum,
Speaking sage advice:
"Watch your weight!
"What do you think you're doing?
"Normal gnomes have certain forms. But your bum:
"'Tis no more size eight."
Brow downcast
Yet the greedy wight feasts on;
And as his garden-maw begins to foam
He still can't eat his pie too fast.
And as he fattens
The tussock squattens
And Christmas crimson cassocks burst their buttons,
And fairies, even fairy-mums, will - sighing - hum
"What shall we do with gluttons?"
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCA ABCA DEFD XECX GAFG HAFH IXCI GGJFJ |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 164 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
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