The Masque of the Red Death

words removed
2,439
marks left
342
words a sentence
23.9
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: The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, Florence Hartley. More twins

Edgar Allan Poe on the shelf

5 books by Edgar Allan Poe are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Charles Darwin. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edgar Allan Poe's punctuation is closest to Ward McAllister's.

Edgar Allan Poe's average fingerprint

Edgar Allan Poe on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEdgar Allan Poe's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.48.47.2
Commas70.179.476.6
Colons0.00.61.6
Exclamation marks0.46.02.8
Question marks0.42.53.7
Words per sentence23.921.317.0
Dialogue1%25%22%

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

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