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   This is... an early version - stanza two - of the application of  automatic poetry  to the  Tao te Ching  stanza two.  I created the font - absurdlyTall-regular - just for this.  

  This is... an early version of the application of automatic poetry to the Tao te Ching .  I created the font - absurdlyTall-regular - just for this.  

I've been playing with generating poetry using spreadsheet formulae for a year or more. why produce automatic poetry?  I encourage you to read up on John Cage and Chance Operations Coming from a software development background, I have an uncomfortable relationship with the idea of anything automatic.  The work that goes into a button you can push to automagically do something, is often complex and subject to variation. Automating anything to do with the english language implies even more complexity.  The language, in a word, is irregular - making it beautiful and a major pain to codify. Here's how I approached "automatic poetry". provide input to the spreadsheet about the structure of a poem. provide data  that the spreadsheet can use to construct its own poem. To me, the logical units of a poem are the words.  Each word contributes to a line in a poem by acting as a part of speech.  It's probably important to note here for the reader, that I don't even con...