Sequence, Selection
a aardvark abbess abbey air
aisle alabaster ash
ashamed ashore aside at bail
bait baker balance bash
Sequence, Selection is a computer-executed procedure for formal sound poetry. The process takes some given sequence and selects elements from it according to a set of meter and rhyme constraints. The example above uses a march through a modified version of an English dictionary as its sequence and uses common meter (01010101/010101) (abab) as its selection criteria.