A poem lovely as a search engine

Comes now the Google Poem Generator. You can program it to automatically write a poem using the famous search engine - any structure you like, and any key word you like. So without further ado ... a sestina about sestinas.

Come with silver money, clutching
Sestina Network provides fee-only
The structure leaves the rhymed
In the English building. They come
Home Delivery · Prime Wine
Final three-line envoi. - By

Envoy. - Advice by
Come with silver money, clutching
Music! Bah! there's no wine
E. Sestina And Company of Fee-Only
Ad esempio, una sestina come
Each verse Quatrains rhymed

Swinburne's Rhymed
From a course taught by
Doesn't matter how we come
Sonically: unfunny/phone; clutching
Acclaimed "father of fee-only
Music! Bah! there's no wine

Music! Bah! there's no wine
Have also written rhymed
The Sestina Network of Fee-Only
Comment so far. - By
Same garden timidly clutching
While we will probably come

Alighieri - Sestina. I have come
Music! Bah! there's no wine
The unconscious, clutching
There's the French rhymed
Website. - By
John E. Sestina, a fee-only

Stale; To be sure your fee-only
Go Zel, I come
Independent - Sestina by
Music! Bah! there's no wine
Sestina, villanelle, rhymed
Away for publication clutching

Come with silver money, clutching
Have also written rhymed
Music! Bah! there's no wine

Uh, yeah.

For some inexplicable reason, in the last few days I've suddenly gotten interested in the sestina. (I blame McSweeney's.) I've been trying to write my first, torturing BB and Anthony along the way. So far, it doesn't scan this nearly well, but it makes a darn sight more sense than saying Bah! there's no wine a bunch of times. I guess you get a trade-off when humans write poetry vs. machine.

Mine is about George Lucas. No, really.

Bah! There's no wine!

Comments

[Dan]

I think the Unofficial Rules state that having mentioned you're writing a sestina (or experimenting with another poetical form) and having named the subject (! -- have you worked in the proper noun "Jabba"?), you have to share.

But only if you want to.

[pam]

I will - but I just realized there are only 33 lines. There should be 39. I'm missing a verse. Bah!

[Anthony]

Isn't a sestina a four-door economy car made in Albania by height-challenged lesbians? I hear they get good mileage....