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Imagery
Concrete, sensory detail vs. vague abstraction. We reward poems that show a reader something specific over poems that name an emotion.
The Storgy Toolkit · Free
Poem Rater — An honest 1–10 score in seconds
Paste your poem and get an honest score with sub-scores for imagery, rhythm, originality, emotion, and craft — plus what's working and what to improve. Calibrated for amateur work, not the canon.
- Sub-scores
- 5
- Avg rate time
- ~10s
- Free per day
- 2 runs
How we score
Five dimensions, plus an overall02
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.
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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.
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Emotion
Whether the poem moves us. Earned feeling beats stated feeling — sadness shown through detail beats the word 'sad' said directly.
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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
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.
Yes — most people do. Leave the author field blank or use a pen name. The rater doesn't know who you are.
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.
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.
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.
Yes — 2 tool runs per visitor per day, shared across all Storgy tools. Resets every 24 hours.
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.
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.