Cranford

words removed
72,106
marks left
13,050
words a sentence
25.7
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: Moby-Dick, Herman Melville. More twins

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell on the shelf

2 books by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's punctuation is closest to Robert Louis Stevenson's.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.612.87.2
Commas73.974.176.6
Colons1.21.41.6
Exclamation marks4.65.42.8
Question marks2.53.63.7
Words per sentence25.720.417.0
Dialogue27%37%22%

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

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