"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." — Jean Cocteau
Bad Metaphor
Your metaphors are terrible. We should talk about that. Not a grammar checker having a midlife crisis — a poetry workshop with taste, opinions, and the courage to tell you why your image collapses.
The best teachers have
opinions they'll defend
Other AI writing tools evaluate poetry the way a form letter evaluates a novel — by checking boxes. Bad Metaphor is different. We trained an educator with genuine aesthetic conviction: a model that doesn't just flag clichés but performs cliché autopsy — dissecting why the expression fails, what the poet originally reached for, and what unexplored image still lives beneath the dead language.
This is pedagogy, not evaluation. A mentor who reads deeply, responds with voice, and earns trust through the quality of their attention. The kind of teacher who might say your sonnet's volta arrives too early — and then show you three ways it could pivot that you hadn't imagined.
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant — success in circuit lies.”— Emily Dickinson
“A poem is a machine made of words, but it is a machine that runs on feeling.”— The Educator Model, during training
Two minds, one workshop
The system pairs two specialized models in a visible, editable dialogue. You see every instruction, every critique, every revision — and you can intervene at any point.
The Educator
A fine-tuned model with a distinct poetic voice, strong aesthetic opinions, and deep knowledge of prosody, form, and the history of verse. Trained on curated critique, cliché autopsy datasets, and pedagogical dialogue.
- —Genuine voice, not neutral evaluation
- —Cliché autopsy: dissects what failed and why
- —Form-aware: scansion, volta, enjambment
- —Suggests specific, actionable revisions
- —Configurable personality & aesthetic stance
The Poet
A generation model specialized in producing original verse and implementing revisions. Receives structured critique from the Educator and produces targeted rewrites — or entirely new work from prompts.
- —Original poem generation from prompts
- —Targeted revision from Educator feedback
- —Revision on demand from Educator feedback
- —Style-aware: can emulate forms and modes
- —Constrained generation (meter, rhyme, etc.)
Transparent orchestration,
human in the loop
Every model interaction is visible. You control critique depth, educator tone, and focus. Daily Poet subscribers get voice mode — spoken feedback read aloud. Volta adds visual analysis: cliché X-ray, trajectory, velocity profile, and more.
Workshop Controls
Poem Draft
Critique received. Request a revision from the Poet.
Request Revision