I had a professor who did this. I didn't even really have to do anything, since you could use any poem and at that time I had Prufrock constantly ringing in my ears. Heck, I can think of a few times in college when I was bored during class and tried seeing how much of "To His Coy Mistress" I could transcribe from memory, which was actually nearly all of it (though that was a few years ago, i.e. I'm a bit rusty). The only English poem I ever intentionally memorized was "The Raven" for my 6th grade public speaking project (I also had to memorize LaFontaine's "The Fox and the Crow" in French, but I know I forget big chunks of it when I was reciting it in class, so that's more of a failed attempt than an actual memorization). Otherwise, I just have a lot of them I've read so many times I couldn't help but know them by heart.
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