The Blue Castle

words removed
69,979
marks left
15,982
words a sentence
11.2
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: Snow-blind, Albert M. Treynor. More twins

L. M. Montgomery on the shelf

4 books by L. M. Montgomery are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Murray Leinster. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, L. M. Montgomery's punctuation is closest to Harper Williams's.

L. M. Montgomery's average fingerprint

L. M. Montgomery on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookL. M. Montgomery's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.42.97.2
Commas46.954.776.6
Colons0.30.21.6
Exclamation marks3.42.32.8
Question marks6.15.83.7
Words per sentence11.212.017.0
Dialogue32%52%22%

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

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