Tristan Miller and Dave Morice created a website that produces highly-authentic Shakespearean sonnets. The trick: rather than randomly-generated Markov gobbledygook that evokes the flavor while crudely hitting the meter, each generated sonnet reuses whole lines from the body of Shakespeare’s poetic work. The results are more convincing, at the cost of more commonplace repetition.
Writes Miller: “unlike some other poetry generators, this one ensures that the poems have the correct rhythm, rhyme scheme, and grammar. Dave first published the
method for generating the poems back in 1991, but this is the first time it’s been implemented on the Web.”