I’m sure I won’t be the only person posting this poem today:
The Original
Leap Year Poem
by Anonymous
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
I’ve decided to hand out this poem as my Poetry Friday Poem during Morning Meeting in my classroom this morning. I made tiny copies of it for them so that they can “keep a poem in their pocket.” I might challenge them to see if they can keep it ’til 2012!
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Ha! I always thought it ended “Except for February/which has twenty-eight.” It always felt a little odd that way! But I still recite it whenever I’m trying to figure out dates in my head.
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This one never worked for me. I’d always throw the months in randomly:
Thirty days has September,
April, May, and December
All the rest have thirty-one
Except February, which has twenty-eight
etc…
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I only knew it as far as “except February,” which is where I thought it ended. It makes the poem particularly funny, really, since it’s such an abrupt ending.
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🙂 I’ve heard this one both ways, and was always alarmed (as a child, who believed in The Rhyme Above All) that neither really rhymed…
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Whoevery taught me this one (so many years ago I can’t remember) knew it a little differently:
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one
but February, which has twenty-eight
except when leap year comes
which gives it twenty-nine.
Gearing up for the SOLC!
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