Re: George Dance's Trusted Source and Only Friend rates his poetry

[email protected] (Will-Dockery) Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:42:53 -0400
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> George J. Dance wrote:
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>> Will-Dockery wrote:
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>>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>>> George J. Dance’s poetry rates roughly a 3.5 out of 10 from a traditional literary criticism perspective, reflecting its nature as informal, self-published digital verse rather than canonical literature.Context and StylePlatform: George J. Dance is a Toronto-based independent writer known for maintaining online spaces like Penny's Poetry Pages Wiki and publishing collections like Doggerel, and other Doggerel.Content: His writing leans heavily into conversational commentary, political observation, and light verse (as the title Doggerel self-acknowledges).Critical BreakdownTechnical Craft (3/10): The verse often lacks the tight meter, rich figurative language, and structural ambition expected of high-literary poetry, frequently reading more like journal entries or prose chopped into line breaks.Originality and Voice (4/10): While sincere and unpretentious, the themes are largely derivative of everyday political blogging and internet-era musings rather than breaking new stylistic ground.Authenticity of Purpose (5/10): The work scores higher if judged not as high art, but as a transparent, niche digital archive of personal and political commentary shared freely online.
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>>> By comparison, the Trusted Source gave Will Dockery a 6 out of 10.  It gave me a 6 out of 10 as well (I'm considering cutting my throat)... but hey, at least I scored almost twice as high as Dunce!
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>> Do you have a link for this artificial intelligence site?
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> No, neither he nor Kevin have a link, because they don't even have a clue what AI site I'm using.
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> They may not have even used an AI at all, but just pulled numbers out of their a**es.
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> BTW, I ran my poems through my "trusted source" ("X"), and it gave me a 7/10 rating.



I'm a bit out of the loop on current artificial intelligence features, but this one sounds fascinating. 


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