The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

words removed
280,717
marks left
79,911
words a sentence
25.9
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: Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, M. I. Ebbutt. More twins

Geoffrey Chaucer on the shelf

3 books by Geoffrey Chaucer are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Dante Alighieri. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Geoffrey Chaucer's punctuation is closest to Ovid's.

Geoffrey Chaucer's average fingerprint

Geoffrey Chaucer on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeoffrey Chaucer's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons18.224.97.2
Commas104.9100.576.6
Colons7.010.41.6
Exclamation marks3.02.42.8
Question marks2.22.53.7
Words per sentence25.929.217.0
Dialogue31%22%22%

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

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