Found poem¶

found_poem · procedural · catalogued

A text lifted whole from non-literary material and presented as verse, the framing doing all the work.

Provenance¶

Source: Traditional; a modern practice with no single originator
Attribution: traditional — classical or folk; no single origin to name
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no
In other languages: Fundstück (de), Poème trouvé (fr)

Prompt hint¶

Take an unaltered passage of ordinary prose and set it as a poem.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.