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

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) < p_break: result.append('\n') else: result.append(' ') return "".join(result) print poem("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 poem that does not rhyme.", p_break=0.1) 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 poem that does not rhyme.