Plays of Sophocles

words removed
37,673
marks left
9,014
words a sentence
9.9
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: A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare. More twins

Sophocles on the shelf

2 books by Sophocles are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Sophocles's punctuation is closest to Euripides's.

Sophocles's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookSophocles's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons12.19.87.2
Commas86.586.376.6
Colons1.54.61.6
Exclamation marks6.87.82.8
Question marks13.914.23.7
Words per sentence9.99.517.0
Dialogue17%14%22%

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

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