How Poeta works

What Poeta is

Poeta: Write Yourself is a public platform for publishing poetry. You can write and read straight away, without an account and anonymously — every published poem automatically gets its own visual generated from its mood and an AI review from one of ten critics.

It's for everyone who writes: those who just want somewhere to put down a line, and those curious how an „outside eye” reads their poem. You don't need to be a poet or know any theory — writing is enough.

The AI review

When you publish a poem, one of ten critics reads it at random and writes a short review (3–6 sentences) in the language the poem is written in. Each critic has their own „voice” — e.g. an academic critic, a modernist, a psychologist, a stylist — so the same lines can read very differently between two of them. That's on purpose: a review is one interpretation, not a final verdict.

Alongside the review, the AI assigns one dominant mood (out of ten: melancholy, love, joy, anger, hope, solitude, nostalgia, nature, mystery, freedom), 2–4 themes, and four scores from 1 to 10:

The scores are the chosen critic's subjective take, not an objective measurement — a low number doesn't mean the poem is „bad”, just how that voice experienced it. The AI only reads the text it's given: it doesn't know your biography, historical context, or what you meant, and it judges rhyme and rhythm from how the words sound, so it can miss the mark on experimental or multilingual verse.

If you're registered and the poem is yours, you can request extra reviews from specific critics (each uses one daily analysis). Once all ten have weighed in, you can also request a synthesis — a single text that ties together where the critics agree and where they diverge.

• Originality — how fresh the expression is rather than leaning on cliché.
• Rhythm — how the verse flows, its sound and pacing.
• Emotion — the strength and honesty of feeling in the poem.
• Imagery — how vivid the images, metaphors and scenes are.

Anonymous vs. registered and the daily quota

AI analyses are capped by a daily quota so the service stays available to everyone. Anonymous users get one daily quota, registered users another (usually higher). The counter resets each day.

Registering (email or Google) not only raises the quota but also unlocks extra reviews from a chosen critic and the synthesis, links all your poems to your profile, and gives you your own address (see below). You can still write and publish without an account.

Your address (handle)

Every registered poet has their own public address in the form poeta.ink/your-name, gathering all of their poems. We assign it automatically from your name when you register, and you can change it in your profile settings.

The address may be 3–30 characters and contain only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens (e.g. ivan-horvat). Some words are reserved because they belong to platform pages. After you change it, the next change is possible only in 30 days — so choose well.

Public and private collection

Every published poem is public and visible to everyone by default. If you're registered, you can choose upfront, while writing a new poem, to publish it straight into your private collection using the „Publishing publicly” toggle — or do it afterwards, at any time, on your profile under „My poems”. Either way leads to the same result: only you can see it, until you move it back to public.

Anonymously published poems stay permanently anonymous — registering (always a new, separate account, see Copyright) never takes them over, even in the same browser. Moving a poem between public and private is only available for poems you published as a registered user.

Privacy and your poems

Poems are public and visible to everyone by default — don't put personal data you don't want to share into the text. If a poem is private (see above), only you can see it. For the AI review, a poem's text (public or private) is sent to one external AI model, randomly chosen from a pool of available models, solely to generate its score and review.

If you write anonymously, we keep a random session identifier in your browser — but only so you can edit, delete, or hide your own poem within that same visit, before you ever publish it elsewhere. That session is deliberately never linked to any account you open later (see Copyright). Details on data processing, service providers and your rights are in the Privacy Policy.

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