The Poetry Assessor: How Does your Poetry Measure up to the Great Contemporaries?
If you’ve ever wanted your poetry critiqued by an algorithm-using robot, now’s your chance! This nifty little tool allows you to enter your poem in the specified box (where, I imagine, marbles roll through zig-zag plastic tunnels and a penny is flattened and imprinted with Margaret Atwood’s face) then it rates your poem on a numbered scale – negative numbers being more on the “amateur” side of things, and positive numbers on the “professional” side. The application was created using contemporary English poetry and language as a reference point. The website offers more details as to how the tool functions.
Come on, you know you want to try it out…