"His gait was soundless, like the push
of numerous humming-birds at once"

The Emily Robot generates derivative text composed entirely of words and phrases from poems by Emily Dickinson.

Basically, it chops up all of Emily's known work into little bits, then reassembles them joined at common words, based on which words are typically found together (a Markov chain).

The robot also fiddles with the weights of various phrases, adds line breaks, and decides when to end the 'poem', but all the text is Emily's.

This was partly an excuse to teach myself basic web programming, back in 2002.

If it produces anything interesting, let me know (emily@disassemble.org).

A few of the more interesting ones people have noticed are here.