Writing poetry is one of my favorite things to do and I’ve gotten quite adept over the years at crafting celebratory poems for my friends, family, and co-workers for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, retirements, and other special occasions. But not everyone is a poet that didn’t know it. Most people struggle with rhyming while also maintaining a consistent narrative throughout. For those people Google has a solution. A new poetry writing AI known as Verse by Verse that can help you finish your poem or even write it for you.
Engadget sums it up best:
“If you’ve ever fancied yourself as a poet but don’t quite have the lyrical and rhythmic skills one might require, Google’s Verse by Verse tool can help you to craft the most delectable verse. The company’s latest experiment with AI-driven poetry offers suggestions in the style of America’s most renowned wordsmiths.
You can select up to three poets for inspiration, including the likes of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. Once you’ve made your choices and picked a structure for your poem, the tool will ask you to compose your first line of verse. The AI will then suggest some more options.
Verse by Verse won’t lock you into using those suggestions. You can ditch or tweak them, or accept them as is. The tool is supposed to inspire you, not generate an entire poem on your behalf — though you can more or less do that too. Once you have perfected a stanza, you can add more of them to your future masterpiece.”
As great as this tool is I will always prefer to do things the old fashioned way
Struggling throughout most of the day to come up with the perfect thing to say
I know it’ll take longer, not be as cool
But to those who rely on AI, I pity the fool
You can have your neat parlor tricks, your fancy games
I only need my wit, for I’m Craig “The Idea Man” Shames
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