Letters of Asa Gray

words removed
136,450
marks left
33,064
words a sentence
13.0
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: The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford, Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford. More twins

Asa Gray on the shelf

2 books by Asa Gray are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Asa Gray's punctuation is closest to Dorothée Dino's.

Asa Gray's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAsa Gray's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.126.77.6
Commas107.1122.878.1
Colons0.61.31.8
Exclamation marks1.50.82.0
Question marks1.10.62.8
Words per sentence13.09.817.7
Dialogue4%2%18%

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

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