In childhood -- and later also -- rhymes help us to remember. I recall reciting, in early years. "Pme, two, buckle my shoe; three, four, shut the door . . ." Here -- at the website, Empowered Parents -- are a number of counting songs and rhymes.
Recently I found among the poems of one of my favorite poets -- Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- a delightful counting poem entitled "Brass Spittoons." Here are some of its lines: