A “Snowball” is a poem “in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer.” Nossidge built an automated Snowball generator that uses Markov Chains, pulling text from Project Gutenberg. It’s written in C++, with code on GitHub. The results are rather beautiful poems (these ones are “mostly Dickens”):
o
we
all
have
heard
people
believe
anythingi
am
the
dawn
light
before
anybody
expected
something
disorderlyi
am
the
very
great
change
Snowball (also called a Chaterism)
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