Verse Craft

Overview

Write, scan, and revise verse: fixed forms such as the limerick, sonnet, haiku, and villanelle; ballads and song lyrics; rhyming picture-book text; and verse that lives inside a story (a character's song, a prophecy, a skipping rhyme). Every claim that a line scans is shown, not asserted: the agent marks the stresses, counts the syllables, and labels the rhyme scheme so the author can check the work. The author's poem is the standard; propose changes, do not rewrite it wholesale.

Prerequisites

None. A standalone poem needs no project: save it where the user asks, as a plain .md file. Verse that belongs to a story needs the story project, story.md (POV, tone, era), and the file of the character who speaks or sings it.