WikiPoetry
I wanted to use webpages as a source text for my RWET final project. This turned out to be more difficult than I had imagined, as many websites now use formatting and frameworks that make it difficult to access the…
Poetic Formulation with Assistance from Mr. Markov
For this week’s RWET homework, I decided to update my poetic form assignment to include a Markov text generator. This new version of my program feeds a source text through a Markov generator that spits out a new text consisting…
Poetic Formulation
Devising a new poetic form was an unusual challenge in Python. If I were to do this assignment without a computer, I think I would have created a form that requires meter. Meter is rather difficult to generate with an…
The Grep-ing of the Snark
Reading and Writing Electronic text is a class about writing poetry using existing source text and Python. It seemed appropriate to begin my experiments with my favorite poem, Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark.” The poem has many repeating…