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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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