About Shakespeare’s Sonnet GeneratorShakespeare’s Sonnet Generator takes up where the Bard of Avon left off. Using 70 of his lines, our website can generate any of 61 036 015 625 new sonnets. Writing the software was easy, but selecting the lines was a balancing act between rhyme and reason. Out of Shakespeare’s original 2 156 lines, we picked fourteen sets of five rhyming lines.Our implementation is based on the Shakespearean Telesonnet Program described by Dave Morice in the November 1991 issue of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics.Shakespeare’s Sonnet Generator is the only one on the Web that produces poetry from Shakespeare’s original sonnets with the correct rhythm and rhyme scheme. It uses only lines from Shakespeare, and all the lines fit together grammatically.There are other kinds of sonnets, but Shakespeare’s are the best-known throughout the world. A Shakespearean sonnet is fourteen lines long and has an iambic pentameter rhythm throughout. The lines rhyme in the pattern ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
Jason Preu 
Interesting
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Indeed!
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Oh yes
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very interesting this post, thanks for sharing
Anita
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Thanks for stopping by.
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you’re welcome
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Hmm … do you have any examples?
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From the generator itself? Just visit the site: http://www.nothingisreal.com/sonnet/
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Thanks, checked it out but not convinced … seems to encourage a free-floating reading in to it rather than a careful reading of it.
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Not sure I follow…what’s the software trying to convince you of?
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That the new sonnet is a real poem as opposed to a plausible sounding confection? Maybe it’s just me and my hang-up about poems that deliberately defy meaning …
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Ahhh, gotcha, thanks for explaining. I’m more interested in the project as it results in proper rhythm and grammar (though I do admit to being a fan of potential meaning arising from algorithms). But your concern does beg a bigger question of what construes a real poem! 🙂
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My day job was trying to get kids to understand/enjoy Shakespeare, hence my finicky response. He makes sense if you read him to the punctuation – Ken Branagh one that’s good at this.
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Not at all finicky but rather interesting to me as someone looking at it from the engineering side.
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