Metamorphosis

words removed
22,048
marks left
3,035
words a sentence
26.5
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: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, Sarah H. Bradford. More twins

Franz Kafka on the shelf

2 books by Franz Kafka are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Franz Kafka's punctuation is closest to H. B. Drake's.

Franz Kafka's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFranz Kafka's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.74.57.2
Commas58.664.776.6
Colons1.00.71.6
Exclamation marks2.01.82.8
Question marks2.53.73.7
Words per sentence26.521.517.0
Dialogue11%25%22%
  • Metamorphosis1915
  • The Trial1925

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

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