Poetry Machine
One of the most popular features on the old shakespeare.com was the Poetry Machine – a kind of virtual Shakespeare Magnet Poetry collection that selects magnets for you in the approximate frequency the words appear in Shakespeare’s works. To rearrange them, just drag them around with your mouse.
Recreating it here turned out not to be too difficult.
If you come up with a really good poem using this feature, why don’t you let the rest of us know about it by submitting it via the Comments form.
Here’s one I recently created, for example. Kinda cryptic, but not bad:
Pienso que la obra de Shakespeare es inmensamente infinita y al mismo tiempo profundamente preciosa y misteriosa, lo digo por su imaginacion y vision de las cosas, es muy creativo y fascinante…