Three-Line Prompts From Pre-Written Banks
Combine pre-written lines into an editable three-line poetry prompt. Choose Nature, Seasons, Moon & Stars, Water, Silence or Random, then revise the draft yourself. These banks do not guarantee English 5-7-5 syllables, original authorship or a coherent poem. It works as a warm-up, for comparing one theme across several combinations, or for editing all three fields into a personal note before copying.
Generating, Editing and Saving a Draft
- Choose a theme or select Generate draft for the current theme.
- Edit the three line fields. Each field supports one line, up to 500 UTF-16 units.
- Read the draft aloud, revise imagery and count syllables yourself if your task requires a particular meter.
- Save a complete draft during this visit or Copy the newline-separated text. Recent and saved drafts can be reopened.
How Lines Are Picked and Drafts Are Kept
Random selects one line from each bank of 24 first, 18 middle and 24 last lines. Each of five themed pools has four choices per position. Selection is independent, so a result may repeat or combine images that do not fit together. Generate draft does not analyze a keyword, call an AI model or assess syllables.
Save compares all three lines, including spaces and punctuation. Drafts with the same first two lines but a different last line can both be saved. Keep up to ten saved drafts; saving an eleventh replaces the oldest. Recent keeps up to five distinct generated drafts. Editing a line does not overwrite an already saved or recent draft.
Three Bank Lines and Their Syllable Counts
| Bank line | Ordinary-English count | Review point |
|---|---|---|
| Over the wintry forest | 7: 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 | First-bank position does not guarantee five |
| The lantern glows behind the door | 8: 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 | Middle-bank position does not guarantee seven |
| Time passes | 3: 1 + 2 | Last-bank position does not guarantee five |
Why a Generated Draft Is Not Yet a Haiku
Three lines alone do not establish a polished haiku. The Poetry Foundation describes common English versions using five, seven and five syllables, while Japanese mora are a different unit. The generator does not check either. The table's counts are ordinary-English manual examples, not a pronunciation certificate for every bank line.
Do not treat recombination as proof of original authorship, a quotation source or unrestricted commercial rights. The existing banks have no complete line-by-line provenance record. Use them as prompts and write your own wording; verify any source or permission relevant to publication. No commercial-use guarantee is supplied.
Blank lines, embedded line breaks, incomplete Unicode, unsupported controls or fields over 500 UTF-16 units show an error and disable Copy/Save without shortening your text. Failed clipboard access leaves the complete draft or saved-draft box selectable. Saved/recent drafts are kept in memory for this visit, not persistent storage.
Focus each draft on a concrete observation. Read it aloud and decide whether the lines create one moment or a useful contrast. Compare saved versions with different last lines. Copy any draft you want to retain before leaving the tool.
The Poetry Foundation's haiku glossary provides background on English syllabic conventions and Japanese mora. It does not verify these banks or guarantee the generated draft's meter.