Interactive POetry Editor

It's a text editor for poetry!

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Currently provides:

• Validation for rhyme, syllable counts, line counts, and stanza counts
• A specification language for poetic forms

Scroll to the bottom to see future plans.

1. Install a recent development release of Racket (v6.2.900.17)
2. Clone and install this repository: git clone https://github.com/bennn/ipoe; raco pkg install ./ipoe
3. (Optional, but recommended) Install postgres.

If you skip step 3 that's fine, we just save data on words locally, in your current directory.

1. Run raco ipoe init to initialize a database
2. Check out the built-in poetic forms [[TODO how?]]
3. Write a poem: hello.rkt
4. Run racket hello.rkt

High-concern issues to deal with later. These are also on the issues page.

• Submit poems, poetic forms, and words to a central repository

• Real iambic pentameter is more than "10 syllables per line"

• Include word meaning in the analysis, especially when giving suggestions
• Use WordNet

• Especially a problem for rhymes (syllable information is more accurate)
• Use the dictionary pronunciations / phonics