A Child's Garden of Verses

words removed
9,069
marks left
1,663
words a sentence
23.5
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Poems by William Cullen Bryant, William Cullen Bryant. More twins

Robert Louis Stevenson on the shelf

6 books by Robert Louis Stevenson are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for George Gordon Byron Byron. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert Louis Stevenson's punctuation is closest to Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's.

Robert Louis Stevenson's average fingerprint

Robert Louis Stevenson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert Louis Stevenson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons15.214.57.2
Commas84.181.976.6
Colons2.41.91.6
Exclamation marks8.25.12.8
Question marks2.84.43.7
Words per sentence23.518.617.0
Dialogue1%28%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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