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The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

Project Gutenberg #678 · EN · 31,481 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: warm, cosy, sentimental, domestic hearth-glow
  • 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
32,379
Sentences
2,083
Mean sentence length
15.5 words (std 17.2, p50 9, p90 38)
MTLD (vocab richness)
83.5
Type-token ratio
0.132
Commas / 1k
102.0
Periods / 1k
42.2
Semicolons / 1k
14.4
Colons / 1k
1.4
Question marks / 1k
5.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
17.0
Em-dashes / 1k
6.9
Parentheses / 1k
2.6

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