The Duchess of Malfi

words removed
26,977
marks left
8,702
words a sentence
8.2
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: Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw. More twins

John Webster on the shelf

It's the only book by John Webster on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, John Webster's punctuation is closest to Bernard Shaw's.

Bernard Shaw's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons14.07.2
Commas71.776.6
Colons16.21.6
Exclamation marks8.92.8
Question marks12.23.7
Words per sentence8.217.0
Dialogue30%22%

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

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