Poetry Software

[Rybka]

Does anyone know of/have any decent software for poetry writing? I don't mean something that generates verse. I am looking for something you can set up to be a template for a given poetic form and will keep track of meter, rhyme scheme, line or stanza count, word count, etc. Ideally it would have preformed templates for the classical forms as well as allow the writer to save his/her own creations. An attached rhyming dictionary and decent thesaurus would be nice too..

Is there such a thing? If not, why not?

Regards, Rybka

 

[WickedEve]

"will keep track of meter, rhyme scheme, line or stanza count, word count, etc."
I've been using my brain for that, Rybka. lol
I do know that word docs will keep track of word and line count.
And I use online thesauruses and a rhyme generator.
Let us know if you find this software!

 

[JUDO]

Write it Rybka. Make it a plug-in for Microsoft Word and sell it for five bucks! You'll make millions. Poets have no money, but everyone thinks the're a poet.

 

[Quasimodem]

I have encountered several pieces of cyber-poetic software in my time, and will match my system against any of them.

My system: a pocket rhyming dictionary and a metronome.

I don't claim it's a GOOD system, merely that it works as good as any computer assisted item.

Until computers are self-aware, don't expect poetry from them.

 

[Rybka]

Thanks for the reply, QM. And I do like your cybername!
I am not looking for a program to write poetry for me, although I have found one of those; see the string"Automatic Jawa".

I am more looking for a program that can create a template for any given format in terms of lines, stanzas, sylables, etc.
i.e. If I want to write a four stanza poem of five lines to a stanza in iambic pentameter and with a rhyme scheme of A,B,A,B,C, I want a program that will display such a format on screen (and print me copies of the format), keep track of my progress, and tell me if I go off form. If it can suggest rhymes and alternative words all the better, but I agree with you that the human mind is far superior to any computer when it comes to creativity.

Regards, Rybka

 

[JUDO]

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Machines cannot create, they can only do what they're told.

Yes, even AI programs that 'learn' have lists of actions they can perform, after sorting by logic and logic statements that they must choose from, again, depending on how've they've been told to execute them. It's not creative intelligence, just a sophisticated logic and sorting mechanism.

Sounds like a good idea, Rybka. How are your programming skills?


- Judo

 

[Rybka]

What is "Creative" ?

Judo,
Agreed that machines do what they are told, but what is creative? When do we get to a point that we can no longer differentiate human from machine from god?

If a machine can alleviate some of the burden of a task, should we not take advantage of it?

In the thread "Automatic Jawa" (to which everyone seems to be afraid to respond) I think a machine has created one or two responses that have merit. In that program I entered all of the poems that Senna Jawa (whom I respect) has posted on Literotica. The program did a "poet analysis" and created a "poet profile". When I wrote "I. I asked the program to generate more of the poem using the profile it had created for Senna Jawa. As I wrote the poem it created the lines I offered in apology to S.J.

Regards, Rybka

 

[Rybka]

Programing Skills

"Many Moons come Choctaw" I was offered a job with IBM. I chose biomedical research instead.

I know a little Basic, but nothing else.

Regards, Rybka