American Notes

words removed
104,461
marks left
18,453
words a sentence
28.3
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: The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather. More twins

Charles Dickens on the shelf

20 books by Charles Dickens are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 20th closest of the 20 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for John Milton. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Charles Dickens's punctuation is closest to W. B. Yeats's.

Charles Dickens's average fingerprint

Charles Dickens on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Dickens's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons14.19.47.6
Commas91.495.478.1
Colons5.21.81.8
Exclamation marks1.86.22.0
Question marks1.55.32.8
Words per sentence28.317.517.7
Dialogue12%32%18%

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

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