About the Poem

A slightly naughty - OK really quite rude - poem about the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Archimedes.

Category

Rude Poems

Rating

Really quite rude

Style

Rhyming poem

Author

Patrick Winstanley

Unprincipled Archimedes

Eureka! Eureka!
Archimedes leaping
From his bath, was the birth
Of lateral thinking

I wonder if it's true -
Was he leaping into
Bed, when he invented
The Archimedes Screw?

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