The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

words removed
346,335
marks left
60,456
words a sentence
40.6
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: A Defence of Poesie and Poems, Philip Sidney. More twins

Philip Sidney on the shelf

2 books by Philip Sidney are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Philip Sidney's punctuation is closest to Desiderius Erasmus's.

Philip Sidney's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookPhilip Sidney's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.813.57.6
Commas101.4110.078.1
Colons7.56.51.8
Exclamation marks0.91.42.0
Question marks3.03.62.8
Words per sentence40.634.117.7
Dialogue45%26%18%

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

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