The Flower and the Leaf

words removed
5,328
marks left
2,156
words a sentence
56.1
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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: Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation', William Bradford. More twins

Geoffrey Chaucer on the shelf

3 books by Geoffrey Chaucer 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 Aristotle. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Geoffrey Chaucer's punctuation is closest to Ovid's.

Geoffrey Chaucer's average fingerprint

Geoffrey Chaucer on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeoffrey Chaucer's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons22.024.97.2
Commas104.2100.576.6
Colons19.310.41.6
Exclamation marks0.92.42.8
Question marks1.52.53.7
Words per sentence56.129.217.0
Dialogue9%22%22%

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

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