The Odyssey

words removed
130,183
marks left
20,030
words a sentence
28.2
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: The First Book of Adam and Eve, Rutherford Hayes Platt. More twins

Homer on the shelf

2 books by Homer are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Homer's punctuation is closest to M. I. Ebbutt's.

Homer's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHomer's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.314.17.2
Commas71.389.476.6
Colons1.17.41.6
Exclamation marks0.13.92.8
Question marks2.12.53.7
Words per sentence28.225.417.0
Dialogue65%54%22%
  • The Iliad8th century BCE
  • The Odyssey8th century BCE

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

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