My memorizing strategy 💭

Whenever it comes to memorizing anything I always read the first line then I close my eyes and reite it for about five times. When I open my eyes again I read the next line and close my eyes again this time I recite both lines five times and do it again for the next line. Each time reciting from the beginning and adding in the line I had just memorized. I think it's effective because i'll never forget what the first part was. With a poem like "Richard Cory" it took me about an hour because I would often make up words that were not there and put them in one of the lines so I often had to go back and recite that specific line 10 times.