Chaucer's Works, Volume 2

words removed
222,961
marks left
86,554
words a sentence
5.6
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: Roman Stoicism, Edward Vernon Arnold. More twins

Geoffrey Chaucer on the shelf

3 books by Geoffrey Chaucer 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 William Shakespeare. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Geoffrey Chaucer's punctuation is closest to Ovid's.

Geoffrey Chaucer's average fingerprint

Geoffrey Chaucer on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeoffrey Chaucer's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons34.524.97.2
Commas92.5100.576.6
Colons4.710.41.6
Exclamation marks3.32.42.8
Question marks3.72.53.7
Words per sentence5.629.217.0
Dialogue25%22%22%

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

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