Contar cuántas veces se repite cada palabra en un texto

# From this:
"I love Python because Python is easy"
# To this:
{
    'python': 2,
    'i': 1,
    'love': 1,
    'because': 1,
    'is': 1,
    'easy': 1
}
from collections import Counter

txt = "I love Python because Python is easy"
counts = Counter(txt.lower().split())

print(counts)