Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

words removed
92,922
marks left
21,105
words a sentence
17.4
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: The Book of the Sword, Richard Francis Burton. More twins

Hesiod on the shelf

It's the only book by Hesiod on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Hesiod's punctuation is closest to da Vinci Leonardo's.

da Vinci Leonardo'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
Semicolons6.37.2
Commas71.576.6
Colons10.61.6
Exclamation marks0.82.8
Question marks0.93.7
Words per sentence17.417.0
Dialogue20%22%

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

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