I’ll be honest with you: This JavaScript poetry assistant began as something meant entirely for my own use. I’m in the middle of a creative project (sneak preview: it’s relevant to Medēn), and I wanted something that would produce rhymes in real time. Indeed, the first name of this program was “Real Time Rhymer”.
Somewhere along the way, other things found their way into the program, all because I needed them. So eventually I realized, if I found this JavaScript poetry assistant useful, others might too.
Of course, the fact that it began as something I didn’t intend to share makes it a little bit Frankenstein-like. It works, but it’s a bit sloppily coded (for instance, some stuff work with jQuery, others with plain vanilla JavaScript). Its aesthetics are also a bit all over the place. And because I’m not going to spend more time working on the program itself, since I’ve got the functionality I wanted, I decided to simply share it. You can use it on this page, and the source code is also available if you want to play with it yourself.
