Sir, I have a great advantage in puzzle codes.
The green searcher submitted invalid endeavors.
Was it the solution?
Time eluded so easily many.
The day fanatics get to grandly celebrate: March ?????
What am I?
Answer
The answer will
either be a word with 0 letters (the empty word)
or perhaps a word with 10 letters.
The explanation:
314159265: Sir, I have a great advantage in puzzle codes.
358979: The green searcher submitted invalid endeavors.
3238: Was it the solution?
46264: Time eluded so easily many.
338327950: The day fanatics get to grandly celebrate: March ?????
These numbers
count the number of letters in the words of the "poem",
and they coincide with the first few digits of $\pi\approx3.14159265358979323846264338327950$Since today is March 14 (the famous "Pi Day"),
the intended answer should be the ten-letter word fourteenth.
Final comment:
I have just read an article about Pi-Day, that mentioned the following classic pi-memorization sentence (which might be the root of the riddle):
Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force and magic spelling,
Celestial sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate.
Or locate they who can cogitate
And so finally terminate. Finis.
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