The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

words removed
176,953
marks left
57,789
words a sentence
13.9
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: Roughing It, Mark Twain. More twins

George Gordon Byron Byron on the shelf

3 books by George Gordon Byron Byron are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Mark Twain. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, George Gordon Byron Byron's punctuation is closest to Burton Egbert Stevenson's.

George Gordon Byron Byron's average fingerprint

George Gordon Byron Byron on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGeorge Gordon Byron Byron's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.016.77.2
Commas104.7105.376.6
Colons5.17.41.6
Exclamation marks7.38.42.8
Question marks4.44.53.7
Words per sentence13.923.617.0
Dialogue22%18%22%

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

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