Only a Clod

words removed
166,362
marks left
34,755
words a sentence
21.0
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 Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain. More twins

M. E. Braddon on the shelf

3 books by M. E. Braddon are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Mark Twain. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, M. E. Braddon's punctuation is closest to Mark Twain's.

M. E. Braddon's average fingerprint

M. E. Braddon on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookM. E. Braddon's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.710.67.2
Commas66.072.776.6
Colons0.90.61.6
Exclamation marks3.23.12.8
Question marks4.15.13.7
Words per sentence21.019.217.0
Dialogue42%44%22%

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

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