PoetryDB · Example Payload

Get Random Poems

GET /random/2 — returns 2 randomly selected poems from the database.

PoetryLiteraturePublic DomainEnglish LanguageSearchOpen Data

Get Random Poems is an example object payload from PoetryDB, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summarydescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "summary": "Get random poems",
  "description": "GET /random/2 — returns 2 randomly selected poems from the database.",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://poetrydb.org/random/2"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": [
      {
        "title": "Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?",
        "author": "William Shakespeare",
        "lines": [
          "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?",
          "Thou art more lovely and more temperate:"
        ],
        "linecount": "14"
      },
      {
        "title": "Because I could not stop for Death",
        "author": "Emily Dickinson",
        "lines": [
          "Because I could not stop for Death –",
          "He kindly stopped for me –"
        ],
        "linecount": "24"
      }
    ]
  }
}