A Defence of Poesie and Poems

words removed
31,747
marks left
7,053
words a sentence
27.7
most used mark
,

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: Utopia, Thomas More. More twins

Philip Sidney on the shelf

2 books by Philip Sidney are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Philip Sidney's punctuation is closest to Desiderius Erasmus's.

Philip Sidney's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookPhilip Sidney's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons19.313.57.6
Commas118.7110.078.1
Colons5.66.51.8
Exclamation marks1.91.42.0
Question marks4.33.62.8
Words per sentence27.734.117.7
Dialogue6%26%18%

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

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