Input Poem
Paste your poem below. Stanzas can be separated by blank lines. All analysis happens locally in your browser.
Example Data
Illustrative mock entries demonstrating how metrics might look across drafts.
| Poem | Lines | Words | Stanzas | Imagery% | Mythic/1k | Enjamb% | Silence% | Minimalism | Tone/100L | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mock Meadow | 24 | 190 | 4 | 8.9 | 10.5 | 62 | 31 | 74 | 5 | 71.2 |
| Persephone Letter | 18 | 155 | 3 | 10.2 | 24.0 | 58 | 28 | 80 | 7 | 79.1 |
| The Winter Field | 30 | 230 | 5 | 7.1 | 3.0 | 40 | 36 | 68 | 4 | 62.7 |
Formula used
We compute six subscores from your text, each scaled 0–100:
- Imagery Density (I): share of words matching the imagery lexicon. Saturates at 10%.
- Mythic Resonance (M): matches per 1,000 words from the mythic lexicon. Saturates at 25 per 1,000.
- Enjambment Ratio (E): lines not ending in strong punctuation. Saturates at 80%.
- Silence Factor (S): short lines (≤3 words) plus blank-line frequency. Saturates at 50%.
- Minimalism (Min): shorter average lines score higher (≤25 characters saturates).
- Tone Shift Index (T): pivots per 100 lines (words such as “but” “however” “though” “yet”). Saturates at 12 per 100.
Glück Profile Score = 100 × (0.20·I + 0.20·M + 0.20·E + 0.15·S + 0.15·Min + 0.10·T) / 100
Each subscore is clamped to its saturation threshold to avoid runaway weighting.
How to use this calculator
- Paste or type your poem in the text area.
- Adapt the imagery and mythic lexicons if you like.
- Click Analyze Poem to compute metrics and the profile score.
- Inspect the radar chart and the table of subscores.
- Use Download CSV for a spreadsheet or Download PDF for a formatted report.
- Iterate on line breaks diction and mythic echoes then re-analyze.
FAQs
1) Does this tool grade quality?
No. It provides interpretive signals aligned with features often associated with Louise Glück’s poetics.
2) Will it work on any language?
It is tuned for English but you can modify lexicons to fit another language.
3) What is “enjambment” here?
A line not ending in . ; : ? ! or — is counted as enjambed.
4) What is the silence factor?
The share of very short lines plus blank-line frequency as a proxy for pause and restraint.
5) Are my texts sent anywhere?
No. All computations run locally in your browser.
6) Can I export my results?
Yes. Use the CSV and PDF buttons. The PDF captures the report and table.
7) What about references or citations?
This is a creative-analytic heuristic. For scholarship consult critical sources on the poet’s work.