Moby-Dick

words removed
216,979
marks left
45,228
words a sentence
20.2
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: Cranford, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. More twins

Herman Melville on the shelf

2 books by Herman Melville are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Herman Melville's punctuation is closest to Jane Austen's.

Herman Melville's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHerman Melville's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons19.315.67.2
Commas88.787.476.6
Colons0.91.11.6
Exclamation marks8.15.02.8
Question marks4.66.03.7
Words per sentence20.218.817.0
Dialogue22%19%22%

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

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