The sky of the morning was painted a brilliant shade of blue, with clouds like heavenly floating islands of white, and the sun glistening through like a beacon of hope. A dove flew across the ethereal scene, its wings flapping softly and creating ripples in the tranquil air. From the distant hillside came a chorus of sacred song, the collective voices of devoted worshippers singing in perfect harmony to a higher power. It was a scene of pure beauty, of joy and peace, of serenity and of divinity. — Chatsonic
I enjoyed the exercise. With “Verse By Verse” you have a choice of 22 famous poets to provide inspiration through lines of their poetry (or in a similar vein to it.) For each poem you may choose just one poet influencer or up to three total. I chose the three listed under the poem. I chose the number of syllables per line and couplets that the program chose to rhyme. I provided the first line. The AI then provided suggestions from each of the 3 influencers to choose from to rhyme with it. Once a line is chosen, it may be edited. As the lines kept coming I noticed a theme of perhaps obsessive unrequited love on the part of the writer, who happens to be dying. Once that presented itself, I proceeded with that in mind.
This AI program offered good flexibility in being able to edit the suggested lines.
One weakness was a lot of repeating choices offered. I think the program would work better with more poet choices and less repeating lines.
Please note: I didn’t spend a lot of time tweaking the given lines. It was put together in ten minutes tops.
Verse by Verse is found here.
The top passage and the image were generated by Writesonic/Chatsonic.
Björn is today’s host of dVerse’ Meeting the Bar/Form. Björn says:
So today I would like you to see what you may do with any AI-tool to write your own
poem. Please indicate in your response what tools you have been using (including any
artwork) and how you worked your own voice into the poem.
Tao Talk 
I liked the flexibility of verse-by-verse the best too… and you could also add your own lines and edit the suggested ones… I like how you got your first line from one AI where you also got the picture…
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I think that was my first line but not 100% sure. I put it together with V by V. Today I went to the other one and created the top quote and picture (well, AI did.) 🙂
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You still have to work a little with the pictures… so I see it more like any other tool you may use… maybe give you a few lines to start the creative process… like being inspired to write by reading a dictionary.
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I’m more of a VbyV fan and your choosing couplet structure makes the poem much more lyrical
(I appreciated all your commentary too on the AI poetry machines!)
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Thanks for the feedback, Laura and was happy to share the info on the experience.
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While I admire what you have done here, I just cannot get into this whole AI thing. It disturbs me greatly!
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ME TOO, Dale! It was a prompt and it was fun. Will I do it again beyond this prompt? Highly doubtful. It’s soulless, imo.
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It is. And I feel so bad for the teachers today…
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I cannot even imagine being a teacher in this day and age. They are heroes in my book.
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Ugh. No thank you and yes, they are. They have SO much to deal with…
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Very nice Lisa! I am having trouble getting my screen reading software to access the sites with the AI software on them!
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Lucky you 🙂
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Amazing!
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Thanks, Dwight.
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“22 famous poets” ???
Do you know who Phillis Wheatley was? She was buried in an unmarked grave, in poverty with her youngest child. She was purchased by John Wheatley, who wasn’t sure when she was born. He couldn’t recall if she was from Gambia or Ghana. Slave ships didn’t keep those records. She became the first published woman of African descent in America after being taught to read th Bible by Wheatleys wife. What you have used at the prompt of AI to inspire your oblivious white “grace” is beyond shitty.
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Thank you for the information on Phillis Wheatley. I learned about her in grade school, but that was a long time ago. I’m sorry you find this fun exercise demonstrating why AI is a bad idea so upsetting. To turn it into a personal attack is uncalled for. Have a nice day.
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Yes, you are sorry. You feeling personally attacked speaks to your ego. Phillis was the name of the slaver’s ship. Wheatley was the last name of the man who bought her. You called her famous. You don’t even know her name. N one knows this poet. Wheatley was a Christian evangelical and he got this eight year old girl for his WIFE to be her servant. She taught her to read the Bible. She taught her “Grace” and that erased her. But sure YOU feel personally attacked. Go figure.
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Again, I am happy to learn more about Phillis and thank you for sharing the information. I’m relatively new to the world of poetry and you’re right, woefully uneducated about the innumerable abuses that have been visited upon men, women, and children who have been enslaved and exploited in unconscionable ways. I did read Frederick Douglass’ autobiography some years ago and it affected me deeply. How much more cruel must a female slave’s life have been. I just recently read George Saunders’ book, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He talks about it some. No Saunders can never understand just as I, nor you, can understand the lived experience of it. But we can try to acknowledge the heinousness of it.
Your sharing here about Phillis is appreciated. There was no need to attack me in order to share the information. You have a wonderful day and I hope you keep reading my blog. Look into my archives and you might see I’m not the egomaniacal monster you seem to think I am, at least not all of the time.
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I did not call you a monster. If you want to have “fun” with your poetry “prompts” and work with AI you should research your “famous” poets that “inspired” you to write about “grace” before you post something so casually. Context actually does matter. Maybe not to you… but to the average reader, you are responsible for it.
I understand you feel attacked. But that’s not what is happening to you. So what if you don’t like how you come out looking in this. That’s what’s more important to you than the eight year old black girl who was literally erased. She died poor because white publishing refused to publish her second book after she was freed. You need to read more than Frederick Douglas. I am not trying to “imagine” the experience of enslaved peoples. It’s the entire history of America. It is THE history of the USA to this day. After the genocide of the Native American tribes, the entire history is Christians justifying enslavement and assimilation of cultures.
I am not being unkind to you. I am not attacking you. I am alarmed as the complicit poetry community.
Good luck with your blog.
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I meant to write, I am alarmed At the complicity (not as)
I will apologize to you for my typo.
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I also used Verse by Verse…but with only one poet. I totally agree about the repetition of lines offered by Verse by Verse….I “refreshed” quite a bit to get more lines!
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I did too, Lillian (refreshed a lot.) This is as good as it’s going to get, or as good as my very limited motivation is to get it.
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I have not tried that one yet. Interesting lines but what I have experienced with the AI is that it tends to repeat the same phrases over and over again. It still needs the poet’s touch, I say.
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100% in agreement, Grace.
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I echo the “thanks for the feedback” comments. I think I shall give it a go.
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My pleasure and I hope you do.
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This is beautifully composed, Lisa! Ofcourse .. the site gives repeated lines .. can you imagine if it did not 😀 we Poets would have faced the ominous possibly of being replaced! ❤️❤️❤️
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Thanks much for reading and your comments, Sanaa. Ah, let the Bots have all the Glory, I’ll keep poeming along 🙂
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I like this Lisa…I have felt this way a few times…like you described…it’s really great.
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Thanks, Max 🙂
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It’s one of my favorite ones.
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Well it was written by an AI program so maybe you don’t like my poetry as much as you think 😉
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LOL…no it took me back to a moment I had when I got baptized…I can’t describe it…but you did.
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Awww that’s a very important memory it brought back to you.
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This is impressive, no doubt. Yet while AI can be great to help execute complex tasks the human brain couldn’t do, I’m very conflicted when it comes to using AI for creative endeavors. It just rubs me the wrong way!
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I understand, Christian.
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Thanks for explaining the process you used. I’ve used poetry generators (although not this one I admit) and I just don’t like them. But your result seems better than most. (K)
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I think some of them are more sophisticated than others.
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Interesting results
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Thanks, Sadje.
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You’re most welcome
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This is quite an interesting challenge. Enjoyed your poem.
Much💜love
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Yes, it was interesting and fun and a little disturbing. I just wonder how much better these programs will get over time.
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