The Book of the Sword

words removed
166,275
marks left
56,344
words a sentence
13.6
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: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, Hesiod. More twins

Richard Francis Burton on the shelf

2 books by Richard Francis Burton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Richard Francis Burton's punctuation is closest to John Forster's.

Richard Francis Burton's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRichard Francis Burton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.111.37.2
Commas103.988.076.6
Colons5.36.81.6
Exclamation marks0.23.12.8
Question marks1.12.13.7
Words per sentence13.619.317.0
Dialogue29%32%22%

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

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