The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

words removed
127,161
marks left
34,614
words a sentence
17.6
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: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson. More twins

Ovid on the shelf

It's the only book by Ovid on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ovid's punctuation is closest to Geoffrey Chaucer's.

Geoffrey Chaucer's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons14.57.2
Commas107.176.6
Colons8.21.6
Exclamation marks1.02.8
Question marks1.43.7
Words per sentence17.617.0
Dialogue6%22%

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

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