“Triangle Rhyme”

Posted in Language,Poems,Science & Math by Greg Ross on May 9th, 2010

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Although the altitudes are three,
Remarks my daughter Rachel,
One point’ll lie on all of them:
The orthocenter H’ll.

By mathematician Dwight Paine of Messiah College, 1983.

(Further recalcitrant rhymes: month, orange. W.S. Gilbert weighs in.)