Biographia Literaria

words removed
139,655
marks left
24,778
words a sentence
28.8
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: The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I., Edward William Lane. More twins

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the shelf

It's the only book by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's punctuation is closest to Edward William Lane's.

Edward William Lane's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons11.47.2
Commas89.976.6
Colons3.31.6
Exclamation marks3.92.8
Question marks2.03.7
Words per sentence28.817.0
Dialogue11%22%

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

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