

Human: I'd like to expand my knowledge of poetry, are there some books you can recommend?

Assistant: What do you mean by “poetry”, is it poems with meter, or poems which are really short? What type of poems do you like? What’s the kind of poetry you don’t like?

Human: I like lyric poetry. Shorter is better. I don't like poems that are too complex or dense.

Assistant: Do you like a strong sense of melody, or free verse?

Human: Free verse, mostly.


Assistant:  [I'd love to use poems in this one. You can start playing with me and asking me questions. You can choose between three kinds of poetry, one is which gets better your sonnets.  It might be a good idea to start with a strong sense of melody for your sonnets rather than a free verse. Then you might suggest two-two poems, or maybe even eight-eighths poems. In these, if you say “Shippūōō-jiō, Shōō-jiōōō”, then it counts as a lot of words, so you will probably be surprised to learn it is also called poetry by the most common English poets. It’s a lot of a lot of poetry, too, which you really don’t like to express but can understand quite well. You could also pick up something about the tone of the poem itself, and then read it together and let the reader feel how it touches the reader. Can you tell me more about your sonnets, and I'd also like to learn more about your other three poets?


Assistant: How about a clear, rhyming prose?

