Areopagitica

words removed
18,051
marks left
2,307
words a sentence
43.8
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: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, David Hume. More twins

John Milton on the shelf

3 books by John Milton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for David Hume. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, John Milton's punctuation is closest to Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield's.

John Milton's average fingerprint

John Milton on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJohn Milton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.118.27.6
Commas85.0106.978.1
Colons3.27.11.8
Exclamation marks0.31.52.0
Question marks3.03.52.8
Words per sentence43.841.717.7
Dialogue4%9%18%

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

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