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The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

Project Gutenberg #154 · EN · 128,735 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: earnest, prosaic, quietly moral, American-plain
  • 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
133,755
Sentences
8,547
Mean sentence length
15.6 words (std 13.0, p50 12, p90 33)
MTLD (vocab richness)
79.2
Type-token ratio
0.060
Commas / 1k
69.0
Periods / 1k
52.2
Semicolons / 1k
8.7
Colons / 1k
0.6
Question marks / 1k
6.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
4.7
Em-dashes / 1k
6.7
Parentheses / 1k
0.0

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