Janet:
Does any of this aid creativity? I doubt it.
You're probably right, although it could help in the understanding of the part that patterns and forms play in the creative process. Richard Moore has a fine essay called "The Form that Liberates" in which he claims, more or less (and among other things), that form can be a heuristic. We already knew it can be a mnemonic. Maybe such a program could reveal forms of which the writer isn't altogether aware.
Richard
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