The Aesop for Children

words removed
27,348
marks left
4,301
words a sentence
15.7
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: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. More twins

Aesop on the shelf

4 books by Aesop are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Arthur Conan Doyle. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Aesop's punctuation is closest to Olive Harper's.

Aesop's average fingerprint

Aesop on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookAesop's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons0.74.07.2
Commas53.166.076.6
Colons0.83.41.6
Exclamation marks4.82.52.8
Question marks2.52.63.7
Words per sentence15.721.017.0
Dialogue20%21%22%

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

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