The Crown of Wild Olive

words removed
315,655
marks left
62,228
words a sentence
25.5
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: Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. More twins

John Ruskin on the shelf

5 books by John Ruskin are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for T. Smollett. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, John Ruskin's punctuation is closest to Julius Caesar's.

John Ruskin's average fingerprint

John Ruskin on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJohn Ruskin's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons17.414.47.6
Commas92.986.678.1
Colons3.62.91.8
Exclamation marks1.10.42.0
Question marks2.50.92.8
Words per sentence25.526.917.7
Dialogue6%3%18%

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

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