Generating Haiku with Deep Learning – Towards Data Science

I've done previous work on haiku generation. This generator uses Markov chains trained on a corpus of non-haiku poetry, generates haiku one word at a time, and ensures the 5-7-5 structure by backspacing when all the possible next words would violate the 5–7–5 structure. This isn't unlike what I do when I'm writing a haiku. I try things, count out the syllables, find they don't work and go back. It feels more like brute force than something that actually understands what it means to write a haiku.