Selected Works of Voltairine De Cleyre

words removed
138,687
marks left
25,735
words a sentence
22.2
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: Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving. More twins

Voltairine De Cleyre on the shelf

It's the only book by Voltairine De Cleyre on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Voltairine De Cleyre's punctuation is closest to Herman Melville's.

Herman Melville'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
Semicolons11.97.2
Commas80.276.6
Colons2.41.6
Exclamation marks6.12.8
Question marks3.63.7
Words per sentence22.217.0
Dialogue11%22%

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

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