Probably better (for human creativity) if no one ever builds them, but surely I’m not the first to think of the following online prostheses for poetasters:<\/p>\n
(1) A straight rhyme-grepper (words that rhyme with…)<\/p>\n
(2) An alliteration-grepper (words that begin with…)<\/p>\n
(3) Combining (1) and (2) with a thesaurus (grep only words that mean something like…)<\/p>\n
(4) Metric constraints could easily be plugged in too<\/p>\n
(5) And machine-aided metaphor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The reason it’s probably better if would-be poets stay away from such devices is that necessity is the mother of invention, and the brain is such that once it senses that it can off-load a task onto another device, it no longer rises to the occasion. And then versification becomes just a multiple-choice exercise… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Probably better (for human creativity) if no one ever builds them, but surely I’m not the first to think of the following online prostheses for poetasters: (1) A straight rhyme-grepper (words that rhyme with…) (2) An alliteration-grepper (words that begin with…) (3) Combining (1) and (2) with a thesaurus (grep only words that mean something … <\/p>\n
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