The Divine Comedy

words removed
108,948
marks left
28,008
words a sentence
24.3
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: The Aeneid, Virgil. More twins

Dante Alighieri on the shelf

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

Dante Alighieri's average fingerprint

Dante Alighieri on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookDante Alighieri's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.414.17.2
Commas114.0100.176.6
Colons11.18.71.6
Exclamation marks6.03.92.8
Question marks2.72.93.7
Words per sentence24.326.117.0
Dialogue53%28%22%

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

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