Essays

words removed
74,731
marks left
10,947
words a sentence
20.7
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: Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson. More twins

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the shelf

3 books by Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Ralph Waldo Emerson as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ralph Waldo Emerson's punctuation is closest to Henry David Thoreau's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's average fingerprint

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRalph Waldo Emerson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.511.27.2
Commas73.383.476.6
Colons0.53.81.6
Exclamation marks0.90.92.8
Question marks2.92.93.7
Words per sentence20.719.017.0
Dialogue2%5%22%

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

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