minion-poetry

A bot that uses markovify and tweepy to compose and tweet poetry

An experiment in progress

Requirements:

Built on Python 3.6.2, this bot uses the os, string, random, and time modules. markovify and tweepy can be installed by pip install tweepy markovify or with the requirements.txt file.

Corpus:

The following texts were used to construct the corpus:

• Poems Every Child Should Know by Mary E. Burt: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16436
• The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321
• Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1459
• Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience by William Blake: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1934
• probably something else I'm forgetting, also from gutenberg.org

Translation dictionaries:

The Minion translator library is derived from Bryce Dorn's minion translator dictionary: https://github.com/brycedorn/miniontranslator/blob/master/js/library.js

In addition, a Middle & Early Modern English to Modern English dictionary was constructed due to the nature of many of the poems featured in the corpus to ease translation into Minionese.