This was made as part of the multimedia component of HZ9101: Introduction to Creative Writing, where the relationship between poetry and the poetical science (computer science^†) was explored.

Its workings are rather elementary: the programme only ensures that the number of syllables are appropriate for the type of poem using a syllable counter, and matches the end rhymes with the rhyming database RhymeBrain.

^†Ada Lovelace, considered to be “the first computer programmer”, referred to her approach to the subject as the “poetical science”