The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

words removed
145,806
marks left
97,058
words a sentence
4.1
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 Suffrage Cook Book, L. O. Kleber. More twins

George Gordon Byron Byron on the shelf

6 books by George Gordon Byron Byron are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Sigmund Freud. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, George Gordon Byron Byron's punctuation is closest to William Hone'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
Semicolons34.418.47.6
Commas193.4116.078.1
Colons8.07.21.8
Exclamation marks2.68.72.0
Question marks1.14.72.8
Words per sentence4.116.617.7
Dialogue8%16%18%

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

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