The unfathomable stupidity of Fake Intelligence

A lot of poetry sites now append an "AI analysis" to the end of each poem -- as if anyone who loves poetry ever asked them to smear its sacred pages with that filth!

Today, wanting to read Emily Dickinson's "From Blank to Blank" while away from my library, I turned to one of these sites. When I reached the end of the poem -- two stanzas of five unrhymed lines each -- I was confronted with this brilliant "analysis":

The poem consists of two quatrains with an irregular rhyme scheme (ABCB DEFE), typical of Dickinson’s later work . . .

I had no very high opinion of these algorithms' competence at simulating intelligence, but even I assumed they would at least be able to count the number of lines in a poem and identity rhymes or the absence thereof!

If this is "intelligence," truly 'tis lighter to be blind.