Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation

words removed
113,753
marks left
20,294
words a sentence
27.8
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, Hell, Dante Alighieri. More twins

Dante Alighieri on the shelf

3 books by Dante Alighieri 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 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
Semicolons14.814.17.2
Commas90.7100.176.6
Colons6.38.71.6
Exclamation marks3.13.92.8
Question marks2.62.93.7
Words per sentence27.826.117.0
Dialogue13%28%22%

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

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