NAME

Lingua::Poetry::Haiku::Finder - find poetry in the least poetic places

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Poetry::Haiku::Finder;

my $finder = 'Lingua::Poetry::Haiku::Finder'->from_filename(
  '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'
);

for my $poem ( @{ $finder->haikus } ) {
  print "$poem\n\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

This module will scan a string (which may be read from a file) for consecutive sentences which sound like haikus.

It uses Lingua::EN::Syllable, which provides imperfect syllable counts, so they may not always work. It will also occasionally split lines as 6/7/4 or similar, to avoid hyphenating a word and splitting it onto multiple lines.

Constructors

from_text( $string )

from_filehandle( $ref )

from_filename( $string )

Methods

haikus

Returns an arrayref of strings, each string being one haiku. Lines of each haiku are joined using "\n".

There are other methods and helper classes, but you probably don't need to know about them.

BUGS

Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Lingua-Poetry-Haiku-Finder.

SEE ALSO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.