Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

words removed
130,028
marks left
45,451
words a sentence
16.1
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: Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens. More twins

Robert Burns on the shelf

2 books by Robert Burns are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert Burns's punctuation is closest to Charles Rogers's.

Robert Burns's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert Burns's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons21.717.77.2
Commas134.2120.576.6
Colons7.67.31.6
Exclamation marks13.410.02.8
Question marks3.32.63.7
Words per sentence16.116.317.0
Dialogue7%7%22%

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

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