I do it nothing about poetry , but I ’m passably sureVerse by Verse — Google ’s new AI - power poetry generator — is phoning it in .
“ poetry by Verse ” is formatted like Smart Compose in Gmail , but for poetry : input the opening line , and the program generate a excerption of often absurdist suggestions that seldom be the premature thought . The syllabus write original lines in the style of your selected “ muse ” such as Robert Frost , Walt Whitman , Emma Lazarus , and Phillis Wheatley . A sample personal line of credit mold by Philip Freneau : “ Every man of the adult male and man . ” Every man of the humanity and man … maaan .
The safely limited offerings are a lot less scary than OpenAI’sGPT-2 , which can generate a fictitious article from a lede sentence . ( After sitting on the full version for a year , for fear that it could be used to distribute imitation news show , OpenAIreleasedthe system in November 2019 . ) As Literary Hub haspointed out , you canalready use GPT-2to plug in a part of a material poem and generate an closing . Verse by Verse is , decidedly , not that .
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Here are a few works inspired my journeying in blogging :
chirrup dit com
I will ne’er lumber off
Pretend to get me like the bird
If I could ever hide my littleness ,
Right would it be my misfortune
Inspired by Lydia Huntley Sigourney , Edwin Arlington Robinson , Amy Lowell
Rollouts
Why , lord , must you smite us with Fleets
round off the ships and up the towns ?
Will do with them for their mortal fray ?
Or if they might go with their quest
To go with their drift in a dream ?
enliven by Robert Frost and Emma Lazarus
drop-off
OMG CATIE HOW DO I MUTE U
off in the tempest , quondam and Modern !
Inspired by Phillis Wheatley , Georgia Douglas Johnson , Frances Ellen Watkins Harper , and Gizmodo investigative reporter Shoshana Wodinsky
Verse by rhyme
What is the song that speaks the sea
Around the tune and murmur of its hum ?
Soft vocalism like the infinite emcee at rest ,
Inspired by William Cullen Bryant
In other words , the results do n’t obtain up well against previous procreative poetry projects . See research scientist Marjan Ghazvininejad’sprogramthat pick Song dynasty lyric poem and secure entirely Modern phrase into sonnet form , each note hang from thematically similar condition . Or Ranjit Bhatnagar’sPentametron , which does n’t beget newfangled lines , but research Twitter for iambic pentameter and weaves line into verse line . This feels more like Google goofing off rather than trying to actually crack the AI - verse puzzle .
But it can be , and therefore , it exists , like a quivering house of cards neath my aboriginal paneling .
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