Remembering verse rather than prose (Gervase Babington)

[Reformed Covenanter]

… for we all see by experience, that what is written in verse, both more affecteth, and more sticketh in the memory, than what is written in prose.

Gervase Babington, Comfortable notes upon the books of Exodus and Leviticus, as before upon Genesis Gathered and laid down still in this plain manner, for the good of them that cannot use better helps, and yet are careful to read the Scriptures, and very desirous to find the comfort in them. ... With a table of the principal matters contained in this book (London: Thomas Chard, 1604), p. 228.

 

[RamistThomist]

And also put to a cadence. That is why barely literate monks in the early church had the Psalter and Gospels memorized.

 

[Solparvus]

Really short quote, really long title.

@BayouHuguenot any online writing you can point to for cadence? How to incorporate it? Interested for memorization sake.

 

[RamistThomist]

Really short quote, really long title.

@BayouHuguenot any online writing you can point to for cadence? How to incorporate it? Interested for memorization sake.

The best people to ask are Anglicans and Lutherans. There is a Lutheran website that chanted all the psalms. That's what I use.

Psalm Tones