“True_poetry: Poetry Generator by GPT-2 With Meter and Rhyme Constraints”, Douglas Summers-Stay2020-05-08 (NN sampling, GPT-2; backlinks; similar)⁠:

Just run true_poetry.py and type or paste in some text as a prompt and it will generate a sonnet, limerick, couplets or a ballad…You can modify the meter or rhyme scheme however you want.

There is still some work to be done. It likes short, one-token words too much. Sometimes the rhyming word is grammatically incorrect. The longer the poem goes, the more likely it is to degenerate…

You can choose between limerick, ballad, or sonnet, or create your own rhyme scheme with a little editing of the code.

A few random samples. I have touched up just the punctuation by hand a bit:

1. Ballad:

   And then with voice as sweet and small
   as falling drops she said:
   The night will come, it always comes,
   with clouds, to change my bed
   to snow. But in the night the moon
   will put aside the stars,
   and in the snow of clouds I will
   be buried as you are.

2. Sonnet:

   The mixture should continue beating when
   you fold in half. The batter will be thick.
   You can increase the speed by half and then
   increase it further with the beat on stick.
   The mixture will continue beating when
   you fold in half and then begin to fold
   in alternating thirds. You should begin
   to notice little peaks, that seem to hold
   the mixture from becoming soft. You will
   be looking for to lift, or curt but still.

3. Sonnet:

   I see, and with my hand I touch the blade,
   and feel the steel, and stab myself, and go.
   I see, and I confess, that, having played,
   I am the fool I was; But that below,
   which promised such delight And such despair,
   is nothing: it was all: the world and all,
   and nothing, I confess, is. For, compare,
   that other world of sense; That shining ball,
   the soul and senses call; Of this we are,
   I hope, in health considered; so afar.

4. Other:

   The snow began a little thick and white
   and then a little loath; and then, the night,
   The wind, and then again the snow; until
   The sky above, a dark and endless, still
   and empty sky: a sky, a sky. The night,
   The moon and wind, the moon, and wind and, white.

5. Other:

   The children run, but cannot find
   The house’s ghosts; the ghost behind
   The curtain calls, the ghost before
   The curtains pull apart—The door,
   The window open flies. But no—
   The windows shut, and blinds below.

6. Limerick:

   The Maximus army were led
   by Megatron Prime with his red,
   mechanical arm,
   at fist and forearm,
   and he had his fire-flies red

7. Limerick:

   And then, as in dreams, she began
   to move to her side: and the man
   was dumbfounded. He
   could sense each degree
   of freedom in movement. I can

8. Limerick:

   And there was an Englishman who
   had married his ex. and so grew
   to hate and resent
   his wife; And she went
   to see that he lived. And the two
   

9. Limerick:

   There was a young lady aboard
   a steamship. The sea? She ignored
   the sea, she ignored
   the sails, for on board
   she saw, in the galley, my lord.

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