This program generates random poems that contain zero English words

nonsense.py

# This program generates random poems that contain zero English words

import random
import re

# create dictionary using scrabble dictionary plus 'a' and 'i'
dictionary = []
for line in open('sowpods.txt'):
    line = line.strip()
	dictionary.append(line)
dictionary.append('a')
dictionary.append('i')

alphabet = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z']
consonants = ['b','c','d','f','g','h','j','k','l','m','n','p','q','r','s','t','v','w','x','y','z']
vowels = ['a','e','i','o','u','y']

# generates random sequence of 1 or 2 letters, including at least 1 vowel
def fragment_generator():
	chars = []
	fragment_length = random.randint(1, 2)
	vowel = False
	for r in range(fragment_length):
		char = random.choice(alphabet)
		chars.append(char)
		#print char
		if char in vowels:
			vowel = True
	if vowel == False:
		chars[random.randint(0, len(chars) - 1)] = random.choice(vowels)
	fragment = "".join(chars)
	#print fragment
	return fragment

# randomly combines between 1 and 3 fragments forming a compound that
# doesn't contain 3 or more consecutive consonants and is not a dictionary word
def compound_generator():
	compound = ""
	compound_length = random.randint(1, 3)
	for c in range(compound_length):
		compound += fragment_generator()
	while re.search(r"[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{3,}", compound):
		compound = ""
		for c in range(compound_length):
			compound += fragment_generator()
	while compound in dictionary:
		compound = ""
		for c in range(compound_length):
			compound += fragment_generator()
		while re.search(r"[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{3,}", compound):
			compound = ""
			for c in range(compound_length):
				compound += fragment_generator()
	#print compound
	return compound

# generates a line of 1 to 6 compounds	
def line_generator():
	compounds = []
	line_length = random.randint(1, 6)
	for l in range(line_length):
		compound = compound_generator()
		compounds.append(compound)
	line = " ".join(compounds)
	#print line
	return line

# generates a poem of 6 to 20 lines	
def poem_generator():
	lines = []
	poem_length = random.randint(6, 20)
	for p in range(poem_length):
		line = line_generator()
		lines.append(line)
	poem = "\n".join(lines)
	#print poem
	return poem	

poem = poem_generator()
print poem