to learn rudiments of counting

                                                                     Author:Dietmar Rabich  (1962–) 
Image: Four Bells a Ringing (here)

"one for sorrow, two for mirth, 
three for a wedding, four for a birth, 
five for silver, six for gold, 
seven for a secret that's never been told"  -  .Cassandra Clare

'one for sorrow, two for mirth'
never seems silly of recounting
trending easily for all of its worth
avoiding a bedlam of remembering

with means ready for musings
a nursery rhyme set in motion
to learn rudiments of counting
some little structure as fashioned

to remember it as 'learning by heart'
learning by rote that makes it easy
it all means less of stress right from start
when already imprinted in memory

MLMM's First Line Friday  - 
'one for sorrow, two for mirth'