Using “Markov chains” and “pulling text from Project Gutenberg,” Paul Thompson wrote (er, “wrote”) computer-generated “snowball” poems in which each word is one letter longer than the last.
Others joined in, and now there’s even a Twitter bot spinning verse out of 0s and 1s.
Some of the results don’t quite make sense, but others are surprisingly good. For example:
I am the time Alice forced herself together
or
i am the dawn light before anybody expected anything disorderly
