What if Moby Dick was written as a sonnet, or a limerick, or as a haiku? I wrote a quick program that can take an orginal text like Moby Dick and try to do just that.
Here are some of the examples:
Haikus
till after sunset the clothes that the night had wet haven't seen him yet
that behind those forms he enters the sign of storms a field strewn with thorns
Limerick
thou art a full ship and homeward bound he lays it against a gloomy ground the whole calamity that's christianity whaling scenes to be anywhere found
Sonnet (partial)
i here saw but a few disordered joints where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks this carpenter was prepared at all points which in a voyage of four years perhaps
consider also the devilish brilliance rushing among the boats with open jaws this great whaling house was in existence ambergris is supposed to be the cause]]>
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