Bearded Nanny goes around



you're too big to squeeze
under the guard railing and
too old to jump it
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Submitted by haiku_artist on August 26, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 70
Words 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

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