Rank the different poetic metres from lowest to highest score? What is objectively the hardest type of metaphors to execute perfectly? How many fewer points should a simile get compared to an equivalent metaphor? Are onomatopoeia worth any points? List all the allowed poetry topics and then given them a base difficultly score from 1-5.
Once you have finished writing the rulebook for Olympic Poetry, do you think the poetry that would result from people going through that rulebook and min-maxing their poem would actually be interesting.
I'm not suggesting that poetry should be in the Olympics, I'm just agreeing with the parent comment saying that judging could be done the same as any other Olympic sport that uses judges.
No it can't. That's GP's point. We can reason that one gymnastics skill is more technically difficult than other skill, with various degrees of certainty. We cannot reason and especially codify the same for poetry or its component parts.
there are existing olympic sports with "artistic" scoring components, and poetry was already in the olympics for nearly 40 years... ya'll are overthinking this
Once you have finished writing the rulebook for Olympic Poetry, do you think the poetry that would result from people going through that rulebook and min-maxing their poem would actually be interesting.