Yeah I think the problem is the model has been trained on T. S. Eliot, but it’s also been trained on every amateur poet that has ever posted their doggerel online.
I asked in to write song lyrics for me, and while some of the verses felt inspired, it largely lacked a sense of rhyme and rhythm
The sky is a vast and endless sea,
A canvas painted in shades of blue,
A playground for the clouds to roam,
And dance and frolic as they do.
The sun rises up from the horizon,
And spreads its golden light far and wide,
Illuminating the sky and the earth,
And filling the world with warmth and light.
As the day wears on, the sky changes,
From bright and clear to dark and stormy,
The clouds rolling in and blocking the sun,
As the winds howl and the rain pours down.
But even in the darkest of skies,
There is beauty to be found,
The flashes of lightning illuminating,
The majesty of the storm all around.
So let us look up at the sky,
In wonder and awe and amazement,
For it is a never-ending source,
Of beauty and wonder and amazement.
**end**
Now compare that with a quote about the sky from TS Eliot’s Four Quartets:
Thunder rolled by the rolling stars
Simulates triumphal cars
Deployed in constellated wars
Scorpion fights against the Sun
Until the Sun and Moon go down
Comets weep and Leonids fly
Hunt the heavens and the plains
Whirled in a vortex that shall bring
The world to that destructive fire
Which burns before the ice-cap reigns.
**end**
Not even close.