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From: pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
Subject: Re: Poetry generated by machine ?
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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 16:33:23 GMT
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It has seemed to me that a computer could produce curious results
(maybe even interesting ones) if it were put to the task of composing
very restricted forms of poetry - for instance haiku. You of course
recall that a haiku is a 3 line 5-7-5 poem. 5-7-5 means the first line 
has 5 syllables, the second 7 and the third 5. 

A sample haiku:

poetry is nice
when written by computer
and read in the tub

So does anyone know of programs besides Racter that may compose verse
in more restricted forms? I think Racter supposedly produced fairly
free verse...

