Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

words removed
16,928
marks left
4,697
words a sentence
17.9
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 Fables of La Fontaine, Jean de La Fontaine. More twins

John Gilbert on the shelf

It's the only book by John Gilbert on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, John Gilbert's punctuation is closest to Blanche Fisher Wright's.

Blanche Fisher Wright'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
Semicolons21.67.6
Commas125.478.1
Colons2.81.8
Exclamation marks7.92.0
Question marks6.62.8
Words per sentence17.917.7
Dialogue13%18%

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

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