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                           HAIKU COMPOSER 

The program generates three-line poems in the style of the
Japanese Haiku.  Because of the nature of English words, it was
not possible to keep to the classical metre of 5-7-5 syllables in
each haiku.  The words in each line are selected at random, in a
defined order, from a vocabulary of 200 articles, adjectives,
nouns, verbs and prepositions.  The poems have a nature theme, as
did most traditional haiku.

After running Haiku Composer, press any key to view each haiku in
turn.  If a particularly appealing haiku turns up, it can be
saved on disk by pressing S.  The haiku is added to a file
HAIKU.TXT, which can be viewed or printed with a word processor
which handles ASCII files.  To relocate the haiku file to a
different directory, change the pathname found in the program. 
The file contains a number of example haiku which were composed
by the program during development.  Press Q to quit the Haiku Composer.