The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

words removed
91,596
marks left
16,586
words a sentence
21.6
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 Fairy Mythology, Thomas Keightley. More twins

Edgar Allan Poe on the shelf

5 books by Edgar Allan Poe are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Walter Scott. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edgar Allan Poe's punctuation is closest to Ward McAllister's.

Edgar Allan Poe's average fingerprint

Edgar Allan Poe on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEdgar Allan Poe's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.88.47.2
Commas85.379.476.6
Colons0.80.61.6
Exclamation marks2.46.02.8
Question marks2.32.53.7
Words per sentence21.621.317.0
Dialogue61%25%22%

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

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