Composing a poem is a difficult task, especially if you don’t have the creative skills required for it. Now, Google’s ‘Verse by Verse’ — an artificial intelligence (AI) based tool will help users craft a verse in the style of America’s most renowned poets. Google says that Verse by Verse ‘is a creative helper, an inspiration—not a replacement’.
Verse by Verse helps users mimic the style of a particular poet, from the 22 poets it offers, and after taking inputs from both human and machine, the tool creates a final poem. Users can choose up to three poets from a list of popular poets including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, and others.
Once they have selected their style and picked their poem’s structure, the tool will ask users to compose their first verse. It will then suggest more verses based on a variety of factors, which includes the verse that users’ have written, poet and the selected poem structure among others.
Users can choose to continue writing their own verses, use one of the suggestions, or even edit one of the suggestions to make it more personal. Once the poem is ready, they can give it a title, finalise and save it.
Google says that it has trained its AI system to provide suggestions in the style of each individual poet to act as your muses while you compose a poem of your own. “We give you two options: copy the text itself, or download the poem as an image. In either case, you can easily save the poem and share it with others,” Dave Uthus, Software Engineer, Google AI wrote in a blog post.
