Poems by William Cullen Bryant

words removed
50,957
marks left
10,526
words a sentence
24.5
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 Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson. More twins

William Cullen Bryant on the shelf

It's the only book by William Cullen Bryant on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Cullen Bryant's punctuation is closest to John William Polidori's.

John William Polidori'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
Semicolons13.87.2
Commas104.676.6
Colons2.11.6
Exclamation marks4.72.8
Question marks2.23.7
Words per sentence24.517.0
Dialogue9%22%

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

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