Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

words removed
37,977
marks left
8,841
words a sentence
21.6
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: Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde. More twins

George Gordon Byron Byron on the shelf

3 books by George Gordon Byron Byron are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names George Gordon Byron Byron as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, George Gordon Byron Byron's punctuation is closest to Burton Egbert Stevenson's.

George Gordon Byron Byron's average fingerprint

George Gordon Byron Byron on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeorge Gordon Byron Byron's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons17.916.77.2
Commas104.9105.376.6
Colons9.37.41.6
Exclamation marks12.68.42.8
Question marks6.14.53.7
Words per sentence21.623.617.0
Dialogue8%18%22%

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

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