Promptly Poetry Challenge 2022/2023

A Leprechaun's Clerihew

A twinkle, a smile, a lovely dance;
Hiding gold, taking a chance -
A leprechaun heralds the beginning of spring,
What manner of luck shall he bring?

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Write a poem using the Clerihew form about a leprechaun.

A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.