Study tools & AI

Twenty-six, arranged on three benches at /tools/.

• The writer's bench — poem, haiku, sonnet and limerick checkers, the lyric analyzer, poem and story raters, the story checker, syllable counter, poetry and writing prompts, iambic pentameter checker, rhyme-scheme finder, alliteration checker.
• The student's bench — poem and story analyzers, metaphor and simile finders, Work Q&A, citation generator, essay scaffold, poem comparison, and the quiz library.
• The teacher's bench — discussion questions, essay prompts, and quiz questions with answer keys.

Each row carries a badge telling you what it costs before you open it: AI (one credit a run), Deterministic (unlimited), or Archive (unlimited).

See alsoBrowse all tools

No, and that's the house rule rather than a missing feature. Storgy's AI reads, teaches, and tells you the truth about a draft. It never writes the poem. We retired our generator tools on purpose.

What replaces them is 120 starting points — 60 poetry prompts and 60 fiction prompts — every one written and edited by hand, because AI-generated prompt lists converge on the same vague topics.

See alsoPoetry promptsThe forms library

Paste a poem and you get back a summary, its themes, a stanza-by-stanza walkthrough, the tone, the symbols and what they carry, historical context, and a set of questions and answers about the text.

Input runs from 20 to 5,000 characters, with optional title and author.

If you paste a poem already in the Storgy catalogue, we recognise it and send you to its published page rather than spending your credit on work already done.

See alsoOpen the Poem Analyzer

• Poem Analyzer, Poem Checker, Poem Rater — 20 to 5,000 characters.
• Story Analyzer — 100 to 30,000 characters.
• Story Rater and Story Checker — 100 to 10,000 characters.
• Essay Scaffold — 20 to 20,000 characters.
• Haiku Checker — three lines, up to 120 characters each.

Length never changes the price. A run is a credit either way.

Treat it as a well-read second opinion, not as a grade, a professional edit, or a promise about how a human reader — or an exam marker — will judge the same text. It is machine output, and it can be incomplete, miscalibrated, or wrong.

Where we know the limits, we publish them:

• Scansion is good on polysyllabic words and honest about the rest. Monosyllables are marked flexible rather than guessed at. Where your ear and the machine disagree, trust your ear.
• Syllable counters disagree because English does; we report the most common spoken form.
• The Poem Rater is calibrated for amateur drafts, not the canon — and if you paste a famous published poem it says so instead of praising it as your own.
• Work Q&A can only answer from the summaries and quotes stored for that work, and cites the chapter behind each claim. It cannot invent plot the way an open-ended chatbot can.

Every tool runs on Claude Sonnet 4.6 with a fixed output structure, so results are shaped the same way each time. Found a factual error? Email hello@storgy.com — most trace back to a stale public-record entry, and we fix ours and feed the correction upstream.

See alsoReport an error

Use it to plan; don't hand it in. Every result page carries the same line: do not submit AI-generated content as your own work.

Most schools treat study scaffolds the way they treat tutoring or a revision guide — useful, allowed, and worth citing. The deliverable, though, has to be yours: the prose, the argument, the voice. If your teacher's policy says otherwise, that policy wins.

The Essay Scaffold is built around this. It gives you angles, quotes, and counter-arguments, and it deliberately refuses to draft paragraphs, an introduction, or a conclusion. Hand the scaffold in as an essay and you'll fail on structure alone.

See alsoThe Essay Scaffold

• Three argument angles, each with a thesis, a scope statement, and its supporting structure.
• A quote bank of six to twelve short line-numbered quotes, each with why it matters and which angle it serves.
• Three counter-arguments with rebuttals.
• A curriculum framing block with assessment objectives and an example prompt starter.

It covers GCSE, AP, Leaving Certificate, and IB framings. Quotes are kept deliberately short — six consecutive words at most.

See alsoOpen the Essay Scaffold

Ten multiple-choice questions per poem, free to play and no sign-up needed. Questions are drafted from each poem's full analysis and then stored, so the library is pre-built rather than generated on the spot.

Playing costs nothing and spends no credits, however many you play. The only quiz that uses an AI run is one nobody has ever requested before, because that one has to be written first — and once written it is cached for everyone after you.

Scoring happens on the server — the answers aren't in the page, so they can't be read out of it — and each result explains why the right answer is right. Signed-in readers keep a record of their attempts, and poem quizzes carry a leaderboard.

Teachers who want a fresh quiz on any catalogue work, with an answer key, want /tools/quiz-questions/ instead. That one is an AI tool and costs a credit.

See alsoThe quiz library

For the poem itself, cite the primary source — the public-domain edition linked at the bottom of every poem page. For background facts, the Wikidata entry is the canonical reference.

Every poem page carries a "Cite this poem" block with ready-made MLA and APA lines and a copy button. The full generator at /tools/cite/ covers MLA 9, APA 7, Chicago 17 author-date, and Harvard. It's deterministic — no AI, no credit, no account.

Our analysis sections are AI-assisted reference material. They shouldn't stand in for close reading or a peer-reviewed source in academic work.

See alsoThe citation generator

Yes, everywhere. AI-generated commentary is marked as such: it interprets the work, it doesn't replace the primary text. There is no silent AI here.

• Every AI tool page names the model that produced its results.
• Translations carry a badge marking them as an AI literal trot and a reading aid, not a literary translation. Human public-domain translations name the translator, year, and licence instead.
• Quizzes say they're drafted from each poem's analysis.
• Editorial pages drafted with AI say so, and are read by a person before publication.

See alsoTrust & AI policy

Each run produces a result page at a URL with an unguessable ID. It isn't listed or indexed, but anyone holding the link can open it — so don't paste anything you wouldn't want read.

Runs saved to your account stay private on /me/ until you tick "Share on profile". That's the only thing that puts one on your public page.

Want a result taken down? Email hello@storgy.com with the URL.

See alsoPrivacy & data

Yes, for the poem analyzer, poem checker, haiku checker, poem rater, essay scaffold, and story analyzer — there's a PDF button on the result page, and you don't need to be signed in.

Free downloads carry a watermark; a paid plan gets a clean file.