The King in Yellow

words removed
72,479
marks left
16,607
words a sentence
15.3
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: Venus in Furs, Leopold Sacher-Masoch. More twins

Robert W. Chambers on the shelf

2 books by Robert W. Chambers are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert W. Chambers's punctuation is closest to Julian Hawthorne's.

Robert W. Chambers's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert W. Chambers's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.46.77.2
Commas81.577.476.6
Colons1.72.41.6
Exclamation marks5.66.62.8
Question marks6.17.73.7
Words per sentence15.314.717.0
Dialogue28%35%22%

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

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