diff --git a/generate_poem.py b/generate_poem.py
index 60f07bc..40e71f5 100644
--- a/generate_poem.py
+++ b/generate_poem.py
@@ -1,26 +1,79 @@
 import nltk
 import random
-from stat_parser import Parser
+import re
+from textstat.textstat import textstat
+#from stat_parser import Parser
 
 
 class PoemGenerator():
     def __init__(self, corpus):
-        self.sents = corpus.sents('austen-emma.txt')
-        self.bigrams = list(nltk.bigrams(corpus.words('austen-emma.txt')))
+        #self.sents = corpus.sents('austen-emma.txt')
+        self.bigrams = list(nltk.bigrams(corpus.words('shakespeare-hamlet.txt')))
+        self.only_punctuation = re.compile(r'[^\w\s]+$')
+        self.all_words = [bigram[0] for bigram in self.bigrams
+                          if not self.only_punctuation.match(bigram[0])]
         self.cfd = nltk.ConditionalFreqDist(self.bigrams)
-        self.parser = Parser()
+        #self.parser = Parser()
         self.history = []
 
-    def generate_poem(self):
-        sent = random.choice(self.sents)
-        parsed = self.parser.parse(' '.join(sent))
-        word = random.choice(self.bigrams)[0]
-        for i in range(15):
+    def markov(self, word, n):
+        if n > 0:
             print word,
-            for gram in self.cfd[word].items():
-                import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()  # BREAKPOINT
+            n = n - 1
+            self.markov(random.choice(self.cfd[word].items())[0], n)
+        else:
+            print ''
+
+    def generate_poem(self):
+        #sent = random.choice(self.sents)
+        #parsed = self.parser.parse(' '.join(sent))
+        word = random.choice(self.bigrams)[0]
+        self.markov(word, 15)
+
+    def haiku_line(self, line, current_syllables, next_words,
+                   target_syllables):
+        if next_words == []:
+            # this branch failed
+            return None
+        else:
+            word = random.choice(next_words)
+        new_line = line[:]
+        new_line.append(word)
+        new_syllables = textstat.syllable_count(' '.join(new_line))
+        if new_syllables == target_syllables:
+            return new_line
+        elif new_syllables > target_syllables:
+            new_next_words = next_words[:]
+            new_next_words.remove(word)
+            return self.haiku_line(line, current_syllables, new_next_words,
+                                   target_syllables)
+        else:
+            new_next_words = [freq[0] for freq in self.cfd[word].items()
+                              if not self.only_punctuation.match(freq[0])]
+            branch = self.haiku_line(new_line, new_syllables, new_next_words,
+                                     target_syllables)
+            if branch:
+                return branch
+            else:
+                new_next_words = next_words[:]
+                new_next_words.remove(word)
+                return self.haiku_line(line, current_syllables, new_next_words,
+                                       target_syllables)
+
+    def generate_haiku(self):
+        first = self.haiku_line([], 0, self.all_words, 5)
+        print ' '.join(first)
+        next_words = [freq[0] for freq in self.cfd[first[-1]].items()
+                      if not self.only_punctuation.match(freq[0])]
+        second = self.haiku_line([], 0, next_words, 7)
+        print ' '.join(second)
+        next_words = [freq[0] for freq in self.cfd[first[-1]].items()
+                      if not self.only_punctuation.match(freq[0])]
+        third = self.haiku_line([], 0, next_words, 5)
+        print ' '.join(third)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     generator = PoemGenerator(nltk.corpus.gutenberg)
-    print generator.generate_poem()
+    #generator.generate_poem()
+    generator.generate_haiku()