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by codezero 1535 days ago
Do you mind sharing a gothic poem, even if it’s not one of your own?
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Ohh gosh thanks for asking I would totally share the ones I'm most proud of, but then you'd search Google and find the embarrassing ones! But don't worry, I'm not going to leave you wanting! Please accept as a substitute this gothic poem that I programmed my computer to generate:

    We're lost in this cruel place your voice above
    Young soul from out my heart be still in love
    Worth this cruel place your voice from the deep snow
    That this is the night of the world so slow
    Will leave me as my hopes have flown before
    Which answered not with a love that was more
    I'm sitting in this kingdom by the grave
    Your clothes by your voice at the stillness gave
    She's gone to the floor floating on our side
    She speaks in the earth and the truth inside
    Have naught but the pain you feel the bright eyes
    Beyond the waves wipe out my heart denies
    Your voice from the laugh of the desolate
    You're looking for the moon is full of hate
    Forgive if I could change the time has come
    We're lost in this world is not like a drum
I programmed my poetry generator in C++ to use a monte carlo markov chain model with the help of cmudict and isledict trained on a corpus of Edgar Allen Poe, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and select gothic bands. https://github.com/jart/poemy2 You can read the corpora here: https://github.com/jart/poemy2/tree/master/corpora I hope this helps!
Thanks. This is fantastic and I understand the worry of outing your own inner thoughts - hence the sideways request. I am more appreciative than you may ever know.