The Tempest

words removed
23,619
marks left
8,927
words a sentence
7.1
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 Duchess of Malfi, John Webster. More twins

William Shakespeare on the shelf

13 books by William Shakespeare are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 13 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names William Shakespeare as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Shakespeare's punctuation is closest to Sophocles's.

William Shakespeare's average fingerprint

William Shakespeare on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam Shakespeare's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons16.913.37.2
Commas89.692.776.6
Colons31.79.31.6
Exclamation marks11.28.02.8
Question marks8.511.33.7
Words per sentence7.19.417.0
Dialogue17%7%22%

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

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