Tales and Novels of J. De La Fontaine

words removed
93,674
marks left
24,466
words a sentence
30.1
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: Don Juan, George Gordon Byron Byron. More twins

Jean de La Fontaine on the shelf

2 books by Jean de La Fontaine are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jean de La Fontaine's punctuation is closest to William Wordsworth's.

Jean de La Fontaine's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJean de La Fontaine's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons38.428.77.6
Commas112.6110.078.1
Colons10.58.31.8
Exclamation marks3.44.62.0
Question marks4.74.52.8
Words per sentence30.124.617.7
Dialogue33%28%18%

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

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