← Language & Poetry

Random Poem

GET /poetry/random

Get a random poem from the PoetryDB collection of classic English poetry. Returns the poem's title, author, full text (as lines), and line count. Features works by Shakespeare, Dickinson, Keats, Poe, Whitman, and more.

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Example Requests

Basic usage
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/poetry/random

Live Response

{
  "data": {
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "line_count": "14",
    "lines": [
      "I READ the \"Christabel;\"",
      "        Very well:",
      "I read the \"Missionary;\"",
      "        Pretty--very:",
      "I tried at \"Ilderim;\"",
      "        Ahem!",
      "I read a sheet of \"Marg'ret of _Anjou_;\"",
      "        _Can you_?",
      "I turned a page of Webster's \"Waterloo;\"",
      "        Pooh! pooh!",
      "I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white \"Rylstone Doe;\"",
      "        Hillo!",
      "I read \"Glenarvon,\" too, by Caro Lamb;",
      "        God damn!"
    ],
    "title": "Versicles"
  },
  "success": true
}