Rainstorm Poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xLvLX8tZuk

I chose this poem because it meant something. The meaning of the poem is meaningful to me because the poem is about beauty and how the rain storm can get away the sadness and everything that bothers you in the world. When the rainstorm leaves it shows brighter days and happier days so that the bad days were gone away with the wind. The poem was very hard to get to concept of memorizing the poem, but it was easier than memorizing the monologue. When I was memorizing the poem it went with the flow once you get to concept. The only problem with memorizing the poem was the length and some of the words repeated itself, and the lines sounded the same just because it was poem. The techniques that I used while memorizing with separting each section into four stanzas so they would have the pair that rhymed with the previous line. So by separating into sections I could just focus on one section at a time. As I separated them into sections I color coded them so that I could remember was color was after a certain color. Since that was my first time trying that, I was nervous because I don't know how long it would take, or if it was even effective. Doing that was a struggle for me because it took it twice as long as it usually would for me when it comes to memorizing. When I realized that wasn't working for me, I had to tried another situation that I've used in the past, but this technique is very useful but very time consuming, but I had to use it. When memorizing and using the technique, I had to write down each stanza down many times so that I would memorize it. Doing that made it easy because I wrote it many times, then I can read it multiple times so that it would stay in my head. It took many days to get the concept and memorize it, but by the end of the day, it was worth it because I was able to perform in front of the class (even though it took about 20 tries)