98 Variations!

The Month Poem for Your Schoolhouse
We memorized it as children and never forgot the words. We referred to it over the decades to organize our personal calendars. We retrieved the rhyme to teach it to our own children. We repeated the words out loud, but really only needed the first four months to set us straight. "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November..."  

​Known as The Month Poem, this memory gem hath served us well over the decades, but little did we know how many variations existed. An obscure website called leapyearday.com lists 98 versions, but after a closer look you might discount a few due to some questionable poetic license! Below is the version I learned somewhere along the way, but others are much more poetic, memorable, or clever.


              Thirty days has September
              April, June, and November.
              All the rest have thirty-one,
              Except for February, which has
                      twenty-eight,
              In a Leap Year, twenty-nine.



We know you want to check out the other 97 versions, so here is the link to the website.

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98 VERSIONS OF THE MONTH POEM