The Aeneid

words removed
107,714
marks left
29,828
words a sentence
24.3
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: The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. More twins

Virgil on the shelf

It's the only book by Virgil on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Virgil's punctuation is closest to Jacob Grimm's.

Jacob Grimm'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
Semicolons23.07.2
Commas124.676.6
Colons12.61.6
Exclamation marks4.12.8
Question marks2.83.7
Words per sentence24.317.0
Dialogue46%22%

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

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