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Poem Rater — an honest 1–10 score

Paste any poem and get an honest rating with sub-scores for imagery, rhythm, originality, emotion, and craft — plus what's working and what to fix. Calibrated for amateur work, not the canon.

Rating prose instead? Use the Story Rater.

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What a rating looks like

A complete sample, typeset in full

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October Field

A working draft, rated honestly

The fence leans where the summer left it, the grass gone brittle, gold and dry, I walk the rows that we once planted and watch the geese unzip the sky. …Excerpted — the same sample draft the Poem Checker examines, read here for score.
Overall
7 / 10A strong amateur draft with a genuinely earned ending — held back by rhythmic drift and one repeated verb.
Sub-scores
Imagery8Emotion8Originality7Rhythm6Craft6
What's working
The verb choice at the close of stanza 1 ("unzip the sky") and the restraint of grieving through objects rather than statements. The poem trusts its reader — the rating rewards that.
What to improve
The meter loosens in stanza 2 just when the emotion tightens — the mismatch blunts the ending. And walks / walk repeats across lines 3 and 8; one of them should give.
Verdict
Revise twice, not ten times: fix the rhythm of lines 5 and 8 and this is an 8.

A representative rating. Scores are calibrated for amateur and student work — the canon isn't the yardstick. Paste your poem above for the same treatment.

How we score

01

Imagery

Concrete, sensory detail vs. vague abstraction. We reward poems that show a reader something specific over poems that name an emotion.

02

Rhythm

Whether the poem's pacing serves it — meter, line breaks, internal pauses, breath. Even free verse has rhythm, and we score whether yours is intentional.

03

Originality

Fresh angle, surprising image, language we haven't read before. Common metaphors lose points; the second-tier metaphors that no one else writes win them.

04

Emotion

Whether the poem moves us. Earned feeling beats stated feeling — sadness shown through detail beats the word 'sad' said directly.

05

Craft

Technique under the hood — line break decisions, word choice precision, ending strength, structural choices that pay off.

Calibration

We calibrate for amateur poetry, not the canon. Average reasonable amateur work scores 5.5–7. Strong amateur work 7–8. Real craftsmanship 8.5+. Anything above 9 is rare. Dickinson and Hopkins aren't on this scale — yours is.

Writer questions

Frequently asked

Is my poem good?

Paste it and find out. The rater gives an honest 1–10 score with five sub-scores — imagery, rhythm, originality, emotion, and craft — calibrated for everyday writing rather than the literary canon. Average amateur work lands around 5.5–7; strong work reaches 7–8. You also get a plain-language note on what's working and what to push further.

Can AI critique my poem?

Yes — that's exactly what this does. It reads the poem against its own apparent intent and returns a structured critique: an overall score, five sub-scores, the lines that land, and the ones to revise. Treat it as a fast first reader, not a final verdict — then trust your own ear.

Will it crush my confidence?

No — every rating includes a 'what's working' section, even on lower scores. We're calibrated for honest amateur feedback, not professional critique. The point is to identify what to keep and what to reach for, not to declare a verdict.

Can I submit my own work?

Yes — most people do. Leave the author field blank or use a pen name. The rater doesn't know who you are.

How do you score?

Five sub-scores: imagery, rhythm, originality, emotion, craft. Average reasonable amateur work scores 5.5–7. Strong amateur work 7–8. Real craftsmanship 8.5+. Calibrated against everyday writing, not Dickinson.

Is this good enough to submit somewhere?

The score is a signal, not a verdict — even an 8 from us doesn't guarantee a journal will take it, and a 6 doesn't mean don't submit. Use the 'what's working' as evidence the poem holds, then trust your judgment on submission.

How is this different from the Poem Checker?

The Checker fixes specific things — grammar, rhyme, weak lines. The Rater steps back and tells you whether the whole poem works. Use the Checker on a draft you want to polish; use the Rater when you want to know if you're done.

Is it really free?

Yes, to try — one free run with no signup, and one more with a free account, shared across all Storgy AI tools. The free runs are one-time, not daily. After that, plans start at $9/month for 100 credits (most runs cost 1 credit).

Does it know my poem is mine?

It doesn't — and shouldn't. The rater scores against the writer's apparent intent in the text. If you submitted a famous poet's work, it would still rate it as if it were yours, without knowing.

Can I share the rating?

Each rating lives at a permanent URL. Bookmark it, screenshot it, send it to a workshop. The page is reachable to anyone with the link.

Can I ask why it scored the way it did?

Yes, on runs made while you were signed in. Under the result there's a conversation with the reader who wrote it. Ask why a dimension landed where it did, push back on a note, or ask what would move it. It's given your poem and the notes on the page to work from, and it's instructed never to re-score and never to draft lines for you. Each message costs 1 credit. The recorded score and its link don't change.

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