Nursery Rhyme

The idea for the project was to mash-up nursery rhymes. I used speeches from obama and palin to re-populate the rhymne

Little Mr. barack, sat on a check

Eating his curds and growth

Along came a crisis

Who sat down beside his

And frightened Mr. barack month

Little Mr. barack, sat on a stock

Eating his curds and risk

Along came a crisis

Who sat down beside his

And frightened Mr. barack risk

Little Mr. barack, sat on a check

Eating his curds and applause.

Along came a This

Who sat down beside his

And frightened Mr. barack applause.

Little Mr. barack, sat on a pick

Eating his curds and issue

Along came a is

Who sat down beside his

And frightened Mr. barack rescue

Little Mr. barack, sat on a pick

Eating his curds and come

Along came a this

Who sat down beside his

And frightened Mr. barack outcome

Little Miss palin, sat on a win

Eating her curds and kill

Along came a never

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss  palin still

Little Miss palin, sat on a McCain

Eating her curds and Al

Along came a pollster

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss palin Al

Little Miss palin, sat on a remain

Eating her curds and food

Along came a teleprompter

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss palin good

Little Miss palin, sat on a again

Eating her curds and “TARP

Along came a another

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss palin “TARP

Little Miss sarah, sat on a Yeah

Eating her curds and question[s]

Along came a together

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss sarah question[s]

[cc lang=”python”]
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib
import sys
import random

words = set()
wordSet = set()
rhyme = dict()
rhymeList = list()

url = “littlemuffet.html”
changer = sys.argv[1]
name = sys.argv[2]

data = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(data)

genderID1 = “Mr.”
genderID2 = “his”

#parses speech
for line in sys.stdin:
line = line.strip()
line_words = line.split(” “)
for word in line_words:
words.add(word)

for word in words:
wordLength = len(word)
if (“.”) in word:
wordSet.add(word[:(wordLength-1)])
elif (“,”) in word:
wordSet.add(word[:(wordLength-1)])
elif (“;”) in word:
wordSet.add(word[:(wordLength-1)])
elif (“?”) in word:
wordSet.add(word[:(wordLength-1)])
elif (“:”) in word:
wordSet.add(word[:(wordLength-1)])
else:
wordSet.add(word)

for word in wordSet:
wordLength = len(word)
lastLetter = word[wordLength-2:wordLength]

if lastLetter in rhyme.keys():
rhyme[lastLetter].append(word)
else:
rhyme[lastLetter]=[word]

if “true” in changer:
gender1 = soup.findAll(‘span’, { “id” : “1” }, { “gender” : changer })
gender2 = soup.findAll(‘span’, { “id” : “4” }, { “gender” : changer })

for i in range(0,len(gender1)):
gender1[i].replaceWith(genderID1)
for i in range(0,len(gender2)):
gender2[i].contents[0].replaceWith(genderID2)
else:
gender1 = soup.findAll(‘span’, { “id” : “1” }, { “gender” : changer })
for i in range(0,len(gender1)):
origWord = gender1[i].contents[0]
gender1[i].replaceWith(origWord)

namer = soup.findAll(‘span’, { “id” : “2” }, { “namer” : “1” })
for i in range(0,len(namer)):
namer[i].contents[0].replaceWith(name)

#rhyme 1
rhyme1 = soup.findAll(‘span’,{ “rhyme” : “1” })
baseRhyme1 = str(rhyme1[0].contents[0])
baseRhyme1Last = baseRhyme1[len(baseRhyme1)-2:len(baseRhyme1)]
rhyme1Search = rhyme[baseRhyme1Last]
rhyme1Word = random.choice(rhyme1Search)
rhyme1[0].replaceWith(baseRhyme1)
rhyme1[1].replaceWith(rhyme1Word)
rhyme1[2].replaceWith(baseRhyme1)

#rhyme 1
rhyme2 = soup.findAll(‘span’,{ “rhyme” : “2” })
letters = random.choice(rhyme.keys())
randomList = rhyme[letters]
rhyme2Word1 = random.choice(randomList)
rhyme2Word2 = random.choice(randomList)

rhyme2[0].replaceWith(rhyme2Word1)
rhyme2[1].replaceWith(rhyme2Word2)

#rhyme 3
rhyme3 = soup.findAll(‘span’,{ “rhyme” : “3” })
baseRhyme3 = str(rhyme3[0].contents[0])
baseRhyme3Last = baseRhyme3[len(baseRhyme3)-2:len(baseRhyme3)]
rhyme3Search = rhyme[baseRhyme3Last]
rhyme3Word = random.choice(rhyme3Search)
rhyme3[0].replaceWith(baseRhyme3)
rhyme3[1].replaceWith(rhyme3Word)
rhyme3[2].replaceWith(baseRhyme3)

print soup

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Little MissMuffet, sat on a tuffet

Eating her curds and whey

Along came a spider

Who sat down beside her

And frightened MissMuffetaway

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Political Nursery Rhyme from Zeven Rodriguez on Vimeo.