General Discussion

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Your reference to human writing as "literary suffering" amused me.

No suffering when humans write.
Your choices let you keep it light.
No bot can compare -
they're never aware.
For writers the future stays bright

A bot that does not know the rules
(their learning's from theft, not from schools)
will have to be told
that line length is gold
with syllable counts among tools.

Lines 1, 2 and 5 should all match.
3 and 4 are a different batch.
Just do it enough,
it's no longer rough.
Ideas to fit lines will hatch.

I'm doing 88558 syllable lines here, though 99669 is probably as common. Line length can vary from limerick to limerick, but the lines that rhyme should have the same syllable length.

Anyway, you might want to explain that to whichever AI you're using.