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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain (1835–1910)

Project Gutenberg #245 · EN · 144,485 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: balanced tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: nostalgic, riverine, warmly anecdotal, folksy
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
148,502
Sentences
7,075
Mean sentence length
21.0 words (std 20.5, p50 16, p90 43)
MTLD (vocab richness)
82.9
Type-token ratio
0.081
Commas / 1k
68.8
Periods / 1k
41.8
Semicolons / 1k
14.4
Colons / 1k
1.5
Question marks / 1k
2.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
3.4
Em-dashes / 1k
12.7
Parentheses / 1k
1.8

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