{"id":81,"date":"2018-11-09T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=81"},"modified":"2018-11-09T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:16:07","slug":"poetastry-cheat-sheet-2005-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/11\/09\/poetastry-cheat-sheet-2005-11-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetastry Cheat Sheet 2005-11-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably better (for human creativity) if no one ever builds them, but surely I&#8217;m not the first to think of the following online prostheses for poetasters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1) A straight rhyme-grepper (words that rhyme with&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>(2) An alliteration-grepper (words that begin with&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>(3) Combining (1) and (2) with a thesaurus (grep only words that mean something like&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>(4) Metric constraints could easily be plugged in too<\/p>\n<p>(5) And machine-aided metaphor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason it&#8217;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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably better (for human creativity) if no one ever builds them, but surely I&#8217;m not the first to think of the following online prostheses for poetasters: (1) A straight rhyme-grepper (words that rhyme with&#8230;) (2) An alliteration-grepper (words that begin with&#8230;) (3) Combining (1) and (2) with a thesaurus (grep only words that mean something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/11\/09\/poetastry-cheat-sheet-2005-11-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetastry Cheat Sheet 2005-11-20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}