Imitate poetry and other texts.
This is probably the first code ever written as part of a homework assignment for a humanities class. I was assigned to make a creative project that imitates a work or piece of art that we studied during the semester. My teacher indicated that writing code to automate this project would also be acceptable.
To imitate a style of writing, simply pass a few plain text files to the provided script. The script will then generate text with similar word structures to the inputed files. This generated text will appear on stdout.
./imitate.rb samples/Coleridge-KublaKahn samples/Wordsworth-LinesAboveTintern
Using an entire directory as input is also acceptable.
./imitate.rb samples/
The sample Romantic poetry was found here. It is the same poetry that we studied for class.