Getting started

Storgy is a poetry and literature knowledge engine: poets, poems, and themes, sourced from the public domain and decoded line by line. It is a reference work, not a magazine — there is no feed, no comments section, and nothing is published because it is topical.

It has four layers:

• A catalogue of poets, with biographies written from public records.
• The poems they wrote, with line-by-line explanations.
• A shelf of public-domain novels and plays, readable chapter by chapter.
• A curated atlas of themes, forms, and poetic devices.

On top of that sit the study tools and the Writing Desk — instruments that read a poem you already have, rather than producing one for you.

The house rule: Storgy's AI reads, teaches, and gives honest feedback on a draft. It does not write poems or stories for anyone. There are no text generators on the site, by design.

See alsoAbout StorgySources & methodology

The live counts are printed across the top of the homepage, straight from the database — poems, poets, study guides, themes, recitations, comparisons, quizzes, and free tools. We publish the real number rather than a rounded marketing one, which is why it moves week to week.

Alongside those: 38 poetic forms, 70 poetic devices, and 26 free tools. Every quiz is exactly ten multiple-choice questions.

See alsoSee the live countsThe poem index

Four menus in the header, plus the Writing Desk button.

• Poems — the poet and poem indexes, themes, best-of collections, comparisons, translations, recitations, forms, and devices.
• Tools — all 26 instruments, grouped into a writer's bench, a student's bench, and a teacher's bench.
• Study Guides — full study guides for novels and plays, Where to Begin reading paths, the quiz library, and free classroom resources.
• Pricing — plans, what a credit is, and the billing promises.
• Writing Desk — your own drafts. Signed out, this button goes to the product page instead.

Study Guides lives at /works/ rather than a /study-guides/ URL, which is the one piece of navigation people guess wrong.

See alsoAll toolsStudy guides

Press Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) anywhere on the site, or click the search icon in the header. Escape closes it. Search starts after two characters and returns up to five poets, five poems, and five themes.

The search drawer covers poets, poems, and themes only. Study guides, tools, comparisons, and quizzes are reached from the menus or their own index pages.

See alsoBrowse poets A–ZBrowse poems A–Z

• By poet — the A–Z master index at /poets/, with a letter jump.
• By poem — the A–Z poem index at /poems/.
• By theme — the themes atlas, and the top 25 poems for each theme in Best Poems.
• By form — the forms library, from sonnet to ghazal.
• By reading path — Where to Begin gives you which poem to open first for a given poet, and the order for the rest.

See alsoWhere to BeginThe themes atlasBest poems by theme

Most of the site. With no account at all you can:

• Read every poem page in full, including the line-by-line explanation, plus themes, forms, devices, and comparisons.
• Use all eight deterministic tools without limit — syllable counter, iambic pentameter checker, rhyme-scheme finder, alliteration checker, limerick checker, citation generator, and the two prompt libraries. Nothing is sent to an AI model.
• Play any quiz in the library.
• Listen to the recitations.
• Run one AI tool, once. That free run is one-time, not daily.
• Download one poem study sheet as a PDF.

The Writing Desk, the Notebook, and the suggestion box all require signing in.

See alsoBrowse the toolsWhat's free, in full

• One more AI credit — a single signup credit. It is one-time and does not refresh.
• The Writing Desk: two projects, one loose draft, and ten versions per draft.
• Writing goals, streaks, and the weekly insight card — free on every plan, and they never spend a credit.
• DOCX and PDF export of everything you write, forever, including after a subscription lapses.
• The Notebook: save up to ten poems into collections.
• A public reader profile at storgy.com/u/your-handle, which stays empty until you choose to share something.

Notebook highlights and margin notes are a paid feature, not a free one. A free account can save poems into collections but cannot annotate them.

See alsoCreate an accountAbout the Writing Desk

Reading is free. The feedback runs on credits. Every poem page, theme, comparison, study guide, and discussion-question set stays free forever, with no account.

What costs money is AI work: one run of any AI tool is one credit, long poem or short. Plans start at $9 a month billed yearly for 100 credits a month.

The eight deterministic tools never touch your credit balance, no matter how often you use them.

See alsoPlans and pricingHow credits work

• Poem study sheets — PDF. The first one is free with no account; after that a free account is enough.
• Free classroom packs — PDF, at /free-resources/. Two download directly; three ask for an email address first.
• Your Writing Desk pieces and projects — DOCX or PDF, on every plan including free and lapsed.
• Tool results — PDF. Free accounts get a watermark; paid plans get a clean file.
• Notebook collections — EPUB or PDF, on paid plans.
• Recitations — free to play for everyone; saving the MP3 is a paid feature.

See alsoFree classroom packs

No. Storgy is a responsive website — it works in a phone browser, including the Writing Desk, but there is nothing to install.

Mobile and desktop apps appear on the roadmap without dates, which is deliberate: we would rather build them properly than announce them twice.

There is no standalone newsletter signup. Occasional emails go to people with a verified Storgy account, so creating one is what puts you on the list. You can unsubscribe from any of them, and we never add you back.

If you asked for one of the gated classroom packs, you are on that pack's list and will hear when new ones land.

See alsoCreate an account

Sign in and use the suggestion box at /suggest/. It is private, not a public voting board — you see your own suggestions and the replies to them, nothing else.

Every suggestion gets an answer by email, including the ones we decide not to build, and why. Each carries a status: Under review, Built, or Not planned.

For a billing problem or a bug blocking you right now, email hello@storgy.com instead — that gets a faster answer than the suggestion queue.

See alsoSuggest a featureContact Storgy