The Innocents Abroad

words removed
196,951
marks left
33,492
words a sentence
21.8
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: A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain. More twins

Mark Twain on the shelf

11 books by Mark Twain are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 8th closest of the 11 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Edgar Allan Poe. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Mark Twain's punctuation is closest to Henry Harland's.

Mark Twain's average fingerprint

Mark Twain on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookMark Twain's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.210.67.2
Commas64.268.576.6
Colons1.32.21.6
Exclamation marks3.74.72.8
Question marks1.63.63.7
Words per sentence21.819.117.0
Dialogue9%25%22%

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

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