I love this idea. I’m not sure at what ages you’re aiming, but my youngest children (7 and 10) and I are currently working on memorizing these. I’m not sure they would find it easier to memorize this poem as a means of memorizing the plagues, but it is a wonderful enrichment to the work. They do well with memory palaces and acting out the plagues has been helpful for them, but beautiful language is always a welcomed addition.
This is great! The only part that made my eye twitch (a little) was "the cattle dies" instead of "die," but any poem that gives kids permission to run around the house singing about "asses" in the KJV sense is alright by me.
I don't at all mind using them. I think this being a kids' thing helped keep the rhymes "straight". Anyway, it's having a single cross-rhyme that freaks me out. :-D I guess I'll have to get over myself.
I love this idea. I’m not sure at what ages you’re aiming, but my youngest children (7 and 10) and I are currently working on memorizing these. I’m not sure they would find it easier to memorize this poem as a means of memorizing the plagues, but it is a wonderful enrichment to the work. They do well with memory palaces and acting out the plagues has been helpful for them, but beautiful language is always a welcomed addition.
Thank you.
If you decide to use this, let me know how it goes.
This is great! The only part that made my eye twitch (a little) was "the cattle dies" instead of "die," but any poem that gives kids permission to run around the house singing about "asses" in the KJV sense is alright by me.
Sweet. Yeah, asses is fun.
That "dies" part makes me twitch as well. You think a cross rhyme with the correct tense would be better? There are no other cross rhymes.
I am very tolerant of cross-rhymes. Perhaps to a fault. But I did notice you used no cross rhymes throughout.
I don't at all mind using them. I think this being a kids' thing helped keep the rhymes "straight". Anyway, it's having a single cross-rhyme that freaks me out. :-D I guess I'll have to get over myself.
This is great!
What I remember my mother teaching me as a youngster was this, which I assumed was original to her(?).
For the little ones:
Blood, Frogs, Gnats, Flies
Cattle Dies
Boils, Hail, Locust, Dark
Egypt Wails, Israel Departs
Oh my goodness! This is so beautifully written and so powerful!!! Soli Deo Gloria!!!