The poetry knowledge engine — Issue 609
A literary research environment. 2,435 public-domain poems, line-by-line. 261 poets. 82 themed collections, ranked. 100 recitations. Side-by-side comparisons across the canon. Free.
Writer's bench
Analyze
Decode any poem — meter, rhyme, figures, and meaning, line by line.
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Generate
Draft in any classic form — sonnet, villanelle, haiku, ode, sestina.
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Check
Polish a draft — meter, slant rhyme, repetition, weak diction.
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Validate
Strict 5-7-5 syllable parser with kigo (season-word) detection.
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Rate
An honest 1–10 score against the public-domain canon baseline.
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Test
Ten-question quizzes on canonical poems — craft, meaning, and form.
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From the editor
Best of
The oldest subject in lyric — desire, attachment, the language we reach for when ordinary words go quiet.
Dialectic
Shakespeare argues with himself across the canon of conventional beauty.
Listen
From Dickinson to Whitman to Yeats — every reading line-aligned with the manuscript.
The directory
A→Z
Biographies, timelines, and bibliographies for every cataloged voice in the canon.
Dickinson · Whitman · Frost · Keats · Plath
Curated
Eighty-two thematic terrains — love, death, nature, war, time — each ranked top 25.
Love · Death · Nature · Grief · Time
Craft
The architectures of verse — from 14-line arguments to Japanese syllable structures.
Sonnet · Villanelle · Ode · Haiku · Sestina
Storgy+ — Membership
Storgy is free forever. For deeper study, Plus unlocks high-bitrate MP3 recitation downloads, the daily editorial email, persistent workspace drafts in the writer's tools, and lifts the daily attempt caps.
On the method
Storgy is built on the public-domain corpus, line-aligned with original manuscripts where available. Themes, rankings, comparisons, and quizzes are drafted by Storgy's literary AI from each poem's full analysis, then cached. Every page is re-indexed weekly. No advertising, no tracking, no infinite scroll — a quiet reading surface.