They are down by 3–0 with just 5 minutes to play.

The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc.

The Maytime is a season of blossoming in nature and social life

Two glasses and a quart of Rum Popo quickly followed.