Paradise Lost

words removed
80,694
marks left
16,448
words a sentence
42.7
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: In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus. More twins

John Milton on the shelf

3 books by John Milton 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 names John Milton as its author. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, John Milton's punctuation is closest to Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield's.

John Milton's average fingerprint

John Milton on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJohn Milton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons28.818.27.6
Commas127.2106.978.1
Colons9.67.11.8
Exclamation marks3.31.52.0
Question marks3.93.52.8
Words per sentence42.741.717.7
Dialogue8%9%18%

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

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