Cyrano De Bergerac

words removed
35,673
marks left
16,859
words a sentence
6.0
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: Plays, Susan Glaspell. More twins

Edmond Rostand on the shelf

It's the only book by Edmond Rostand on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edmond Rostand's punctuation is closest to Susan Glaspell's.

Susan Glaspell'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
Semicolons4.27.2
Commas74.876.6
Colons69.71.6
Exclamation marks65.02.8
Question marks19.03.7
Words per sentence6.017.0
Dialogue11%22%

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

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