It may interest you to know that I have, in some small way, aided and abetted a poetry-writing bot. It’s fascinating to read how the bot learned to write poetry.
Code is Poetry. This is part of the WordPress philosophy. As a coder and a poet, I have always loved this phrase. I decided to turn this phrase around and ask, Can I make poetry with code? Could I make a bot that could write original poetry? I created an experiment to find out.
First off, I knew that if my bot was to learn to write poetry, it first had to read poetry. In 2017, authors used WordPress to publish over half a million posts tagged as poetry. I reached out to some prolific poets sharing their work with WordPress and asked if they’d be willing to collaborate with me on a fun experiment: would they allow my bot to read their work so that it could learn about poetic form and structure, so that it might learn to write its own poetry? Special thanks to these intrepid…
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O at the Edges 
It really was. It even managed a hexameter.
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That one line stood out!
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It really did. i was gobsmacked.
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An enviable line.
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Wish i’d written it. Had my head spinning.
The father of the light is not a fist of the bones.
Why of course, but why not & was it ever the case that it could have been? i ask the machine, it hums.
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I know! Damn bot!
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Universal inspiration. Nice! Now I’m imagining a synthesized voice reciting the new poetry, à la HAL and “Daisy Bell”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell
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Yes!
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My first thought was that is how people learn to write poetry, too.
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Yes, very interesting. Except we generally have some knowledge of words before starting. Ha.
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Very good point!
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Although we all start from that place of no language.
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So now we’re going to put the poets out of work? I don’t think so! Gotta send that link to a friend who’s working on AI. Cheers!
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Yeah, I’m not too worried about putting the poets out of work. 🙂
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