Skip to content
Inklings
All blots

Dreams and Dust

Don Marquis (1878–1937)

Project Gutenberg #458 · EN · 17,521 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: wistful, dusty, romantic, elegiac American verse
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

Fingerprint

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

Stylometry

Words
17,723
Sentences
695
Mean sentence length
25.5 words (std 25.2, p50 18, p90 55)
MTLD (vocab richness)
76.7
Type-token ratio
0.211
Commas / 1k
89.1
Periods / 1k
17.6
Semicolons / 1k
16.0
Colons / 1k
3.4
Question marks / 1k
8.6
Exclamation marks / 1k
18.9
Em-dashes / 1k
19.7
Parentheses / 1k
3.2

Crowd colour votes

Not enough guesses yet — play /game to feed the consensus.