Shakespeare's Sonnets

words removed
17,762
marks left
3,572
words a sentence
31.9
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: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake. More twins

William Shakespeare on the shelf

13 books by William Shakespeare are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 13th closest of the 13 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for George Gordon Byron Byron. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Shakespeare's punctuation is closest to Sophocles's.

William Shakespeare's average fingerprint

William Shakespeare on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam Shakespeare's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons17.013.37.2
Commas101.692.776.6
Colons10.09.31.6
Exclamation marks5.48.02.8
Question marks5.411.33.7
Words per sentence31.99.417.0
Dialogue10%7%22%

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

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