Doghead's Cosmic Bar

and I suppose, since someone mentioned haiku:

how many nuns could
live for a month on an ounce
of friar's balsam?

But I do think they work better in the original unstressed Japanese. The rhythm of English detracts from the form.

That was from a bad poetry generator... And bad it is, lol

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Writes limerick contest entries -- may I?
My program makes a sample,
These five lines, for example.
And here is the result. Not bad, say I.

(from OEDILF, an amazing project)

Ah, but could it write a sonnet, do you think?
For even Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet
Couldn't hold a steady metre, though it
Sometimes managed rhymes that didn't stink.
When AI comes of age perhaps we'll see
a plethora of virtual poets born?
We'll know the bots are sentient when they form
their chat between each-other metric'lly.
What electronic Chaucer, Donne and Bard
will argue for acceptance by Mankind?
First they must jump through hoops - the Turing test,
And overcome resistance long and hard.
What critical reception will they find,
I wonder - will it turn out for the best?

*snores*

Cheecky lizard. There's nothing hard about talking in an umpty-umpty way, for them as likes it.

I don't know what this "toorring" thing is, but I don't hold with people who just come around firing questions at me. That's just rude,that is. Proper people don't do that.

There once was a lady from Kent,
Whose nose was awefully bent.
One day I suppose,
She followed her nose,
And no one knew which way she went.

I'm sure you could program a bot to write an iambically correct and original sonnet... I can think of a few ways to program that.
But it would be incredibly annoying if they started speaking entirely in iambic pentameter...

Yes, but then the bot is writting to human standards and not there own. What is so great about Iambic pentameters. Why couldn't humans learn to appreciate botic poetry.

Well, iambic pentameter isn't the only form of human poetry, but I've been told that learning to write it well is a good way to become a poet.

Rather than clog up Dogh'd's with philosophising, I'll drag the "aesthetics of botic poetry" reply over to Seasons

rainstorm: I'd love to see a computer program that could do that, and I agree it's probably going to be feasible any time now. But I haven't seen one yet.
I'd actually enjoy a bot that spoke only in verse (so long as it wasn't a William McGonagall-bot!) A virtual Alexander Pope on tap - sounds great to me!

the iamb is good, but the amphibrach's better
to maintain the pace in a verse or a letter.
Unconvinced? Maybe Anapaests suit your style more -
there's a metre for ev'ryone, please rest assured.

Yet oft the humble iamb fits the bill -
t'was good enough for Stratford's playwright Will