The US political poetry generator

American politics isn’t usually poetic, but what happens when you throw in actual poetry? Behold, our political poetry generator.

We’ve gathered the transcripts of the latest Republican and Democratic presidential debates, and programmatically stirred in hundreds of lines of classic poetry. Pick a candidate, poet, and style below, and see what beauty you can generate.

For more political poetry, follow our bot @polpoetry, and you’ll get random lines of generated poetry several times a day.