February Twenty-Ninth
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Why are there leap years?
February Twenty-ninth
(published 4:11 AM)
By Franklin Price
02/29/2020
February twenty-ninth
Comes by but every four
I write this poem to tell you
Why it doesn't come by more
The Earth rotates around the Sun
I would like to make that clear
To return to where it started
Its travel takes about a year
Rotating on its axis,
The Earth makes night and day
Three-sixty-five of them occur
To make the year along the way
However, there's an issue
With this daily keeping score
The travel takes a little longer
So we adjust it every four
We add a day to leap ahead
So we don't get behind
I hope I've not confused you
Is this too heavy for your mind?
To make it easy to determine
The years with one day more
Use the math you learned when young
And divide the years by four
When your math is finished,
With no remainder there to see
Those years will have the extra day
Now I'm confusing even me
Now I'll throw in one more thing
When the century comes in play
The first year with the zeroes
Does not get the extra day
I wrote this in early morning
Of the day that makes the leap
No good reason why I did it
Now I'm going back to sleep
Copyright © Franklin Price | Year Posted 2020
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