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Unread 03-22-2018, 01:32 PM
Max Goodman Max Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by Michael Cantor View Post
Why should anybody want to bother, unless they were more interested in tricks and gimmicks than poetry.
The interest would be in the programming and analysis. Whether it's possible to write a program that could sort through all the variables and identify a rhythm of stresses in a text is an intriguing question.

I can't picture a use a poet might make of such an app, but it's not impossible. Rhyming dictionaries help those who rhyme, and they do so without in any way removing the art from rhyming well.
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