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A Journal of the Plague Year
 Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Daniel Defoe (?–1731)

Project Gutenberg #376 · EN · 94,894 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: grey, documentary, mournful, civic, relentless
  • 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
94,696
Sentences
2,002
Mean sentence length
47.3 words (std 38.4, p50 39, p90 96)
MTLD (vocab richness)
68.6
Type-token ratio
0.060
Commas / 1k
87.8
Periods / 1k
19.7
Semicolons / 1k
13.8
Colons / 1k
1.3
Question marks / 1k
1.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
0.4
Em-dashes / 1k
2.3
Parentheses / 1k
2.4

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