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Common knowledge has it that The Mahabharata is likely the longest epic poem ever written with over 200,000 verse lines consisting of 1.8 million words; some believe it took over 600 years to write. The Mahabharata is called a “long poem”. According to Wikipedia , “The long poem is a literary genre including all poetry of considerable length. Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad and unnecessary, the genre includes some of the most important poetry ever written.”
This website presents many types of AI-generated poetic forms, including a hybrid poem which, if measured in verse lines, stanzas, or words, surpasses The Mahabharata. TotoPoetry’s long poem is itself a dictionary of the English language and consists of 799,278 stanzas, 4.2 million verse lines and over 13.9 million words. "The Grand Dictionary ~ in verse" is a hybrid poem, meaning a poem of mixed forms. While TotoPoetry’s algorithms generate poems more quickly than humans, they do so in a relatively novel f
TotoPoetry, in addition to generating digital poetry, emphasizes didactic forms. According to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, didactic poetry dates back to ancient Greek and Roman traditions having the “… aim to instruct the reader in a particular subject-matter, be it science, philosophy, hunting, farming, love, or some other art or craft.” Early works of Hesiod, Parmenides, Empedocles, Nicander, and Aratus are notable. More recent poets, such as John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling