Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:27:47 +0100 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A script for poets Message-ID: <20060209102747.GA15632@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20060208204359.GA19830@thought.org> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060208202634.0211cea8@broadpark.no> <20060208204359.GA19830@thought.org>
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: >> Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody >> has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write >> rhymes, >> poems or just make up funny lines. You mean something like this to group words by endings? % rev /usr/share/dict/words | sort | rev > This may dovetail into something I was actively working on > several years ago: a C/C++ program that took unmetered text > as input and output N-syllabic lines as output. Interesting. > I created a dictionary of thousands of words with one, two, > three, or more syllabes in my database. I played around > with this idea until I realized that "real" poetry demands > imagery (metaphor, simile), and not simply meter or rhyme. > After 7 years of my writing group I've learned how DIFFICULT > it is to write a good poem. Or prose. Absolutely! > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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