To quote poetry is usually easier than to quote prose because in the
former you have the added helps of rhyme and rhythm. See the pictures
painted by Robert Loveman in the following verses; note the repetition,
alliteration and the help of the rhyme and see how easily you can learn
a few verses of this poem:
"April Rain"
It isn't raining rain for me,
It's raining daffodils;
In every dimpled drop I see
Wild flowers on distant hills.
The clouds of gray engulf the day
And overwhelm the town;
It isn't raining rain to me--
It's raining roses down.
It isn't raining rain to me,
But fields of clover bloom
When any buccaneering bee
May find a bed and room.
A health unto the happy,
A fig for him who frets;
It isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining violets.
See a man in the rain who points out the fact that it isn't raining
rain, "but daffodils". See the daffodils. See big "dimpled drops" and
paint upon them the "wild flowers on distant hills."
Repeat the picture a couple of times and then say the verse. Do the
same with the other verses. Do not learn this by repetition. Be true to
the method, make a picture and see it each time you review.
If a single word is omitted or substituted, put special auditory
emphasis on it, speak it louder than the other words of the line, and
you will have no trouble with it after that.