Songs of Innocence and of Experience

words removed
5,560
marks left
1,247
words a sentence
18.8
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: Shakespeare's Sonnets, William Shakespeare. More twins

William Blake on the shelf

2 books by William Blake are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Blake's punctuation is closest to Homer's.

William Blake's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam Blake's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons16.514.67.2
Commas110.191.076.6
Colons7.97.51.6
Exclamation marks11.77.82.8
Question marks9.06.13.7
Words per sentence18.817.717.0
Dialogue16%20%22%

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

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