verseenhanced

Verseenhanced is a software framework designed to augment verse text with structured analysis and rendering capabilities for poets, editors, and digital publishers. It provides tools to analyze line structure, detect meter, identify rhymes, and annotate text with metadata for enhanced presentation and study.

Core features include metrical analysis for common feet (iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl), automatic scansion marks, rhyme detection and schemes, and syllable counting, plus enjambment and caesura detection. It provides line-breaking guidance and metadata tagging for meter, rhyme, and form. Rendering backends output HTML, ePub, and PDF with themeable typography and API-based integration with editors and content management systems. Annotated representations can be emitted alongside plain text and kept in sync.

Architecture and data model: Verseenhanced is modular, with a core engine, analysis plugins, rendering backends, and a verse metadata schema. The engine accepts plain text or lightweight mark-up, producing a structured representation with tokens, metadata, and layout hints. Plug-in architecture supports additional metrics, language support, and export formats.

History and licensing: The project began in 2022 by the VerseForge Collective as an open-source initiative and is released under the MIT License. Community contributions and third-party plugins have expanded its capabilities and rendering options.

Impact and reception: Verseenhanced is used by literary journals, universities, and digital humanities projects to present verse interactively, support pedagogy on meter and rhyme, and aid accessible annotated reading.

See also: prosody, meter, scansion, poetry annotation, metrical poetry, natural language processing.