poet is a command line tool that analyzes plain text files containing english language writing and uses the text to randomly generate poetry using Markov Chains.

poet -f book.txt poem: generates a poem (a haiku by default) using the words in book.txt.

poet -f book.txt info: prints the Gunning-Fog Index of book.txt (a readability metric).

poet -f book.txt count: counts the number of occurrences of each word in book.txt and displays them in descending order of count.

poet -f book.txt count -t c: counts the number of occurrences of each character in book.txt and displays them in descending order of count.

poet -f book.txt count -e the: counts the number of occurrences of the word "the" in book.txt and displays the total count.

poet -f book.txt match e: counts the number of occurrences of the character "e" in each word in book.txt and displays them in descending order of count.

Download the source code and run pip3 install . from within the folder containing the source code. This will install poet and its dependencies.

• Add code/options for rhyming
• Fail gracefully when nothing is piped into poet