1. A system for extracting traditional Arabic poems in a document comprising: a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage media; first program instructions to identify lines of text within the document that have equivalent length; second program instructions to group the identified lines of text as candidate verses; and third program instructions to select the candidate verses to generate a candidate poem, wherein the first, second, and third program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.