The Prince

words removed
50,117
marks left
6,803
words a sentence
36.0
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: Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift. More twins

Niccolò Machiavelli on the shelf

2 books by Niccolò Machiavelli are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Niccolò Machiavelli's punctuation is closest to Thucydides's.

Niccolò Machiavelli's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookNiccolò Machiavelli's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.610.07.2
Commas80.982.576.6
Colons2.11.41.6
Exclamation marks0.00.02.8
Question marks0.40.23.7
Words per sentence36.037.417.0
Dialogue5%3%22%

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

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