Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

words removed
38,130
marks left
7,416
words a sentence
26.2
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: Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Dante Alighieri. More twins

Dante Alighieri on the shelf

3 books by Dante Alighieri 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 names Dante Alighieri as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Dante Alighieri's punctuation is closest to Homer's.

Dante Alighieri's average fingerprint

Dante Alighieri on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookDante Alighieri's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons17.114.17.2
Commas95.7100.176.6
Colons8.78.71.6
Exclamation marks2.63.92.8
Question marks3.32.93.7
Words per sentence26.226.117.0
Dialogue17%28%22%

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

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