We describe Verse by Verse, our experiment in augmenting the creative process of writing poetry with an AI. We have created a group of AI poets, styled after various American classic poets, that are able to offer as suggestions generated lines of verse while a user is composing a poem. In this paper, we describe the underlying system to offer these suggestions. This includes a generative model, which is tasked with generating a large corpus of lines of verse offline and which are then stored in an index, and a dual-encoder model that is tasked with recommending the next possible set of verses from our index given the previous line of verse.
@article{arxiv.2103.17205,
title = {Augmenting Poetry Composition with Verse by Verse},
author = {David Uthus and Maria Voitovich and R. J. Mical},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.17205},
year = {2022}
}