Plays

words removed
59,041
marks left
19,897
words a sentence
10.5
most used mark
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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: Cyrano De Bergerac, Edmond Rostand. More twins

Susan Glaspell on the shelf

It's the only book by Susan Glaspell on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Susan Glaspell's punctuation is closest to Edmond Rostand's.

Edmond Rostand'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
Semicolons1.97.2
Commas45.876.6
Colons36.71.6
Exclamation marks7.92.8
Question marks15.03.7
Words per sentence10.517.0
Dialogue6%22%

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

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