The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6.

words removed
411,871
marks left
107,356
words a sentence
18.3
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: Household Words, No. 2, April 6, 1850, Charles Dickens. More twins

Charles Rogers on the shelf

It's the only book by Charles Rogers on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Charles Rogers's punctuation is closest to Robert Burns's.

Robert Burns'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
Semicolons14.07.6
Commas109.278.1
Colons1.41.8
Exclamation marks8.22.0
Question marks2.12.8
Words per sentence18.317.7
Dialogue14%18%

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

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