Songs For Memorization

One thing I've wondered about basically since college, where I struggled to memorize the required quantity of Stuff, is whether there are better ways to memorize Stuff. I have tried spaced repetition software like Anki, and my sense is that it works if you can bring yourself to do it, but I am unable to bring myself to do it, and therefore for me it doesn't work.

But since we have recently (?) entered (??) a brave new world (???) where LLMs can just make you all kinds of creative (????) product on demand, I decided to ask my friendly local language model to write me some songs. First: US states by average income

Second: some important equations from physics

Third: the poem Design by Robert Frost, which I have long loved but struggled to remember

I am not a good prompter, neither a good educationalist, so I'm not convinced I'm prompting this model very well nor that I have the right sense of what the ideal type of song for memorization would look like. If you have better ideas, please let me know.

p.s. some pre-llm prior art:



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