April 2009 Archives

My last post contained Perl source code that adhered to the rules of iambic pentameter. An inverse bit of hackery may be seen in these Perlish poetry generators by Nick Montfort. Both programs are 256 bytes in size.

Sample output from the second one:

the sits

chit
of skin spits a kit
skit twins ban
a twin & bill
kin skins kill
fill
a spill chits a pit
shill
sill twills twill
skit

It's been a while since I have some across any new attempts at Perl poetry, so I was delighted to discover this stanza of iambic pentameter code by my friend jadelennox, written as part of Blank Verse Blog Week. The longer version by damned_colonial in the post's comments is great, too.