The Fables of La Fontaine

words removed
95,237
marks left
24,039
words a sentence
19.1
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: Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, John Gilbert. More twins

Jean de La Fontaine on the shelf

2 books by Jean de La Fontaine are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jean de La Fontaine's punctuation is closest to William Wordsworth's.

Jean de La Fontaine's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJean de La Fontaine's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons18.928.77.6
Commas107.4110.078.1
Colons6.28.31.8
Exclamation marks5.84.62.0
Question marks4.34.52.8
Words per sentence19.124.617.7
Dialogue23%28%18%

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

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