Versepad – A text editor for poets

How does it determine where are the stresses? Is it based on just the word itself?<p>I&#x27;m very new to English poetry, I might be entirely wrong here. But when I input some famous poems, the way this app puts stresses is quite a bit different from my understanding.<p>For instance, for<p>&gt; Bards of Passion and of Mirth,<p>It sees _and_ as unstressed, the second _of_ as stressed, and _Mirth_ as unstressed, which doesn&#x27;t quite make sense to me to be honest.<p>&gt; Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow<p>It sees both _and_ as unstressed, while my understanding is that this verse is better read as fully iambic, putting stresses on both _and_.<p>&gt; And what is love? It is a doll dress&#x27;d up &#x2F; For idleness to cosset, nurse and dandle<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;raPMDnc.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;raPMDnc.png</a><p>It sees four consecutive unstressed syllables. I&#x27;m not sure what is the logic here.

For ridiculously-specialist poetry-writing software, the maker of that pretty Classical Chinese programming language ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wy-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wy-lang.org&#x2F;</a> ) people were talking about had also previously made a similar editor for Tang-era Chinese poetry - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LingDong-&#x2F;cope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LingDong-&#x2F;cope</a> , which keeps track of tone patterns and rhymes.

If you like this, you may like the Hemingway app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hemingwayapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hemingwayapp.com&#x2F;</a>

Hi all! Versepad creator here. I did not expect to see this on HN today but I’m happy to answer any questions and would appreciate any feedback!

Very cool. I have been wanting some of these features for a while and finally got around to my own implementation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mcculley&#x2F;WordWhittler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mcculley&#x2F;WordWhittler</a><p>I welcome ideas on how to do smarter things around text composition.<p>I was heavily inspired having benefited from Remembrance Agent back when I lived in Emacs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zzkt&#x2F;remembrance-agent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zzkt&#x2F;remembrance-agent</a>

Suddenly I invested 30mins in writing some of the worst poetry. Great stuff! :)

Pretty cool, it taught me how to write a Haiku:<p>&gt; Monkey eats apple<p>&gt; Monkey prefers banana<p>&gt; Suck it up monkey

It’d be cool to have it support villanelles, where you can type in the first stanza and it’d pre-fill the patterned lines in the remaining five.

Tried to write a limerick, surprised at how much smoother this made the process. Always interesting to see tools creatives use.

This looks really cool!<p>It feels like it would be a very small step to &quot;RhymePad&quot;, i.e. an editor designed and optimized for writing rap lyrics which I think would be really cool, too.<p>Perhaps that already exists?

Amazing! Is it just me though, the rhyme scheme detection seems poor? I&#x27;ve been using the examples from their updates page, and even then it seems to miss internal rhymes?

It would be super cool to hook up GPT fine tuned on poetry dataset to complete the lines :).

It&#x27;s impossible to work with it on mobile due to input highjacking. It actively tries to update my input any time I type something.