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It's a type of poetry called "free verse". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-free-verse-po... Here is the classic story of a Real Programmer, written in free verse: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html This story was originally written in prose, and it apparently got converted to free verse more or less by accident as it was bounced around mailing lis…
Free verse seems silly and pointless. So I wrote a trivial program to turn prose into free verse: import random def poem(text, p_break=0.5, seed=1234): rand = random.Random(seed) result = [] for w in text.split(): result.append(w) if rand.uniform(0.0, 1.0) Here's the output: This is a poem written by a program. It is not really a poem because it does not rhyme, it is some weird thing called free verse, which is a poe…
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