We used the APCD dataset cited hereafter for pretraining the model. The dataset has been cleaned and only the main text column was kept:
@Article{Yousef2019LearningMetersArabicEnglish-arxiv,
author = {Yousef, Waleed A. and Ibrahime, Omar M. and Madbouly, Taha M. and Mahmoud,
Moustafa A.},
title = {Learning Meters of Arabic and English Poems With Recurrent Neural Networks: a Step
Forward for Language Understanding and Synthesis},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05700},
year = 2019,
url = {https://github.com/hci-lab/LearningMetersPoems}
}