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2002 Summer Challenge: Poetry Generators

The following is the list of entries by members in our Summer Linux Programming Challenge to write Poetry Generating Programs. Right-click to download them.

• Ken Burtch (BUSH Business Shell)
  

  Writes poems by replacing words in a template with random words.

  Creating word lists and counting items... Poetry Generator This script takes an outline of a story or a poem and inserts random words for numbers. Type in a story or poem. End with a blank line. Mark words to substitute with a number: 1 = noun ( 56) 2 = verb ( 41) 3 = adverb ( 10) 4 = adjective ( 34) 5 = preposition ( 15) 6 = conjunction ( 5) 1s are 4 and 1s are 4; The 1s 2 3 4 6 you are so 4. unicorns are snarky and nights are pretty; The dawns pooled never yellow thus you are so red. Another poem? (y/n) y horses are naughty and noses are bright; The evenings danced quite glistening or you are so pleasant. Another poem? (y/n) n Bye

   
  
• Chris Browne (Lisp)
  Writes poems based on the analysis of a particular style.
   
  

  #START The Salivators Sheep like humanity, howling as wolves. To evil deferring, destroying the good. As foulmouthed cowards, wasting their breath Flashing fools fashions, ignoring the threat, Of a flash that will fashion . . . Humanity's death.

   
  
• Mel Wilson (Python)
  Writes poems using Markov chains.