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Meet Pentametron, a robot that is a literature nerd's dream. It uses an algorithm to find and retweet rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter.
Through a Twitter account, Pentametron retweets sequential tweets that fit into the ten-syllable alternating-stress meter commonly used in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, complete with rhyming couplets. It also posts them on Pentametron.com in 14 line sonnets.
According to Gawker, the bot first "strips the tweet of emoticons and ASCII art. It then cross-references each word against the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary... If the tweet is in iambic pentameter, Pentametron retweets it; if not, it moves on."
"I always find some new funny or accidentally profound thing there to enjoy," Ranjit Bhatnagar, the creator of the bot tells Gawker.