Uranian Moons Poem by Harley White
Uranian Moons
Uraniun moons bardic named
for plays and persons Shakespeare famed,
albeit twenty-seven known
fourteen there are in image shown
in orbit paths ‘round planet wound,
along with galaxies background.
The moons ice giant's, all but two
are titled after Shakespeare's crew
of characters e'er highly prized
in solar skies immortalized
as lunar orbs empyreal
in firmament ethereal.
That outer planet's at a tilt
on axis, and its course is built
to rotate once in seventeen
hours in its days and nights between.
It's distant, seventh from the sun,
and in seventeen eighty-one
found existent; Hipparchus saw
it first perhaps in starry awe.
But moons at later date were spied,
that is, were telescopic eyed,
over quite a number of years.
William Herschel garnered the cheers
for discovering the two first
moons, and then they were Shakespeare versed
in epithets literary
which may seem extraordinary…
Withal, verily there they are,
each moon celestial Shakespeare star!
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