Don Juan

words removed
126,869
marks left
30,182
words a sentence
35.3
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: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, Robert Burns. More twins

George Gordon Byron Byron on the shelf

3 books by George Gordon Byron Byron 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 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
Semicolons19.116.77.2
Commas106.4105.376.6
Colons7.97.41.6
Exclamation marks5.28.42.8
Question marks3.14.53.7
Words per sentence35.323.617.0
Dialogue23%18%22%

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

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