"A picture is worth a thousand words. Unless it's a picture of a word...
in which case it would be worth 1."

Did you ever wonder
how many words it took
to describe any picture
you might see in a book?

Why take this one here
It's 3 2 by 2 4
That's seven sixty eight
pixels galore

But what is a pixel?
You did frankly ask?
Stands for picture elements
on screens they do bask

If you look super close
perhaps with a flick
those pixels will show
red blue green backlit

And here is a secret
I'll let you in on surprise
for computers are calculators
with speed we do prize

So to place a color
I'll speak plainly crude
you compute some red number
and tell the monitor dude.

These values we use
Run to two fifty five
If you wish to know why
We'll talk bytes another time

So to the math board we stroll
Draw this screen diagram
And label the sides
with the height and width span

Each square on this chart
is simply a mixel
of 3 numbers that
define all of our pixels!

So this picture is
really worth
two thousand
3 hundred and four!