Skittish Eclipse

Critique now!

The Poetry Critique Generator is designed to help line up comments on a poem with the parts of the poem they are referring to. Either a whole poem or parts and pieces of it can be entered. Paste the parts of the poem that you want to critique in the large text area. The text can then be split up in four ways:

1. Each Stanza/Strophe: This option will split the poem into sections wherever there is one blank line or more.


2. Each line: Splits up the poem line by line. Blank lines are preserved to indicate the end of stanzas and allow comments to a stanza overall.


3. Every __ lines: Takes the number in the text box and splits the poem up into that many lines each, including blank lines.


4. Where I put a __ on a line by itself: The text box in this option stands for the delimiter you have chosen to separate lines. This is the most complicated but flexible of all the options -- In order to create sections in the poem, you must mark a line between the sections with the delimiter you have put in. The default delimiter is "//". So,
   
   

   Title
   //
   One
   Two
   Three
   //
   Onetwothree
   Fourfivesix
   

   
   Will separate into a section with Title, a section with One, Two, and Three, and a section with OnetwoThree, Fourfivesix. Remember - the delimiter must go on a line by itself.

When using any of the above options, the comments will be added on the next page in text entry boxes. Pressing the Submit button will create a page with a two column table. On the left side are lines from the poem broken into the kinds of sections chosen earlier. On the right are text areas to put comments in. Since Livejournal and other communities limit the size of their posts and comments, the option below the table indicates the length limit, in characters, for a single table of the critique. The default maximum table length is 4,000, because that is reportedly the maximum size of an LJ comment, but other values may be entered.

Pressing the Submit button at the bottom of this page will bring up a page that has the newly created table with the poem lines on one side and the comments on the other. Below the table display will be a text area with the HTML for that table, ready to copy and paste. If the table exceeds the character limit, it will have been split into as many tables as needed, each with a text area box under them to copy and paste their HTML from.

There is also a new option that will let you type your comments next to the poem and autogenerate the table for it:

    Autogenerate the table with [delimiter] preceding my comments, and a table length limit of [number]

The default delimiter is "//" and the default table length limit is 4,000. You will need to put the delimiter you specify between the line you are commenting on and your comment. So,

Test Poem // The comments go next to the line

One // You can chose what delimiter you want
Two // This is like the line-by-line option

OneTwoThree // Remember - do not press enter, no newlines are allowed.
FourFiveSize  // But the comment can wrap to the next line in the box

Test Poem 

 The comments go next to the line

One 

 You can chose what delimiter you want

Two 

 This is like the line-by-line option

OneTwoThree 

Remember - do not press enter, no newlines are around.

FourFiveSize  

 The comment can wrap to the next line in the box, though