Clicked expecting a poem that is also valid Ruby, like what people used to do with Perl. Was somewhat disappointed, but LOL'd at the Eurozone Bailout poem.
Nice little hack. My favorite find of that sort came from a verse-finder in Python run over the text of The Lord of the Rings -- it was looking for scansion, not rhyme -- i.e., blank verse like Paradise Lost:
One turned to stone. A brief vision he had
Of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it
Towers and battlements, tall as hills,
Founded upon a mighty mountain-throne
Above immeasurable pits; great courts
And dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs,
And gaping gates of steel and adamant:
And then all passed.
I suppose it's not a coincidence the longest passage the program found came at the climactic moment of the story.
This is off topic, but the code highlighting with slight background noise seems like a good idea in general. Has anyone tried this in their editor of choice?
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 20.4 ms ] threadPerlmonks has a list of Perl Poetry (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl%20Poetry). Also on Perlmonks there is a perl5 update of Black Perl (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=237465)