A command-line program to generate haiku using Markov chains.
O Grave, where was thy
sting? O Grave, where was thy sting?
O Grave, where was I?
(Source text: Walden)
caw! caw! caw! caw! caw!
caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! caw! caw!
caw! caw! caw! caw! caw!
(Source text: Moby Dick)
You'll need to install Python 3. Then install the required dependencies:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m nltk.downloader cmudict punkt #download required nltk data
If you're on OS X and these commands give you a CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error, read this for help fixing it.
python3 -m unittest discover
./haiku.py # Generate a haiku with default options (prefix length = 2, source text is corpus/moby_dick.txt)
./haiku.py corpus/walden.txt # Use Walden as source text
./haiku.py -l 4 # Use prefix length of 3 for Markov chain generation
There are several sample source texts in the corpus directory, or you can use one of your own.
For best results, use long passages of text with punctuation, and remove chapter headings, footnotes, etc.