After weeks of thinking about algorithmic poetry this weekend I finally had the opportunity to try out some algorithmic poetry.  I wrote a program that attempts to build a sonnet relating to love and marrage from some external data source (I used the King James Bible in this case).  But this is sort of a private program so I decided to rework it a bit and create a poem about punishment and redemption. Again I used the King James Bible. 

This is the output from the algorithm:

he tree of the knowledge of good and evil
to know good and evil
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually
the imagination of man 's heart is evil from his youth
sin lieth at the door
and because their sin is very grievous
ought on me and on my kingdom a great sin
what is my sin
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins
and will punish you yet seven times for your sins
Also to punish the just is not good
I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the
and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm
very firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb

The marrage blessing came out much better.  I will post the algorithm with my algorithm critique tomorrow.