Seventh Reading

I picked the poem The Tide Rises the Tide Falls by Longfellow to repeat seven times. It was interesting because we sang this in choir about two years ago so I already knew the poem. I did have to look a few times at the words because I had forgotten some, but eventually I got the rise and fall of the poem. After about the fourth time I felt like I got it down. Before I did this excerise I went into it already knowing and loving this poem. It made this a whole lot easier to repeat over and over again. And I'm still not sick of it! After every single time I thought about the poem as a whole as well as individual lines. I, as the blog said, meditated on it. The poem is so soothing to the ears that I loved repeating it seven times.