Generate poetry from a file of words

 the file has words in this format:

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 roses,red,violets,blue,dream,disneyland

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 we will refer to them as:

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 item1,color1,item2,color2,verb,location

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 and construct a poem:

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 item1 are color1, item2 are color2

 when I verb I verb to location

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// Let's put the index of the word into numbers:

const ITEM1 = 0;

const COLOR1 = 1;

const ITEM2 = 2;

const COLOR2 = 3;

const VERB = 4;

const LOCATION = 5;

// final means that I will not change these variables

// It is conventional to use all caps for variable names that will not change

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let strings = [];

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function setup() {

  // How many lines did we get?

  // print("strings array contains this many lines: " + strings.length);

}

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function preload() {

  // The text from the file is loaded into an array.

  strings = loadStrings("words.csv");

}

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let csvRowNumber = 0;

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function draw() {

  let singleRow = [];

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  // First line: "item1 are color1, item2 are color2"

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  // Pick a random number, round that number DOWN to a whole number,

  // and split that row into individual words

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  let n = int(random(strings.length));

  // print(n);

  // print(strings[n]);

  singleRow = split(strings[n], ",");

  // get item1

  let item1 = singleRow[ITEM1] + " are ";

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  // Now keep doing this for each word

  singleRow = split(strings[int(random(strings.length))], ",");

  // get color1

  let color1 = singleRow[COLOR1] + ", ";

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  // Now the second half of the first line: "violets are blue"

  singleRow = split(strings[int(random(strings.length))], ",");

  let item2 = singleRow[ITEM2] + " are ";

  singleRow = split(strings[int(random(strings.length))], ",");

  // get color2

  let color2 = singleRow[COLOR2];

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  // that's the end of the first line of the poem

  print(item1 + color1 + item2 + color2);

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  // Now the second line: when I verb I verb of location

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  message = "When I ";

  singleRow = split(strings[int(random(strings.length))], ",");

  message = message + singleRow[VERB];

  message = message + " I ";

  singleRow = split(strings[int(random(strings.length))], ",");

  message = message + singleRow[VERB];

  message = message + " to the ";

  singleRow = split(strings[int(random(strings.length))], ",");

  message = message + singleRow[LOCATION];

  print(message);

  // that's the end of the second line of the poem so start a new line

  // and also put an extra blank line

  print("\n");

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  noLoop(); // Wait for a mouse click then do it again

}

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// If you click the mouse, allow the draw() function to resume

function mouseClicked() {

  loop();

}

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