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The Song of the Lark

Willa Cather (1873–1947)

Project Gutenberg #44 · EN · 151,113 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: pastoral, aspirational, quietly luminous, prairie-born
  • 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
155,030
Sentences
10,623
Mean sentence length
14.6 words (std 9.8, p50 12, p90 28)
MTLD (vocab richness)
92.4
Type-token ratio
0.067
Commas / 1k
65.3
Periods / 1k
61.3
Semicolons / 1k
4.0
Colons / 1k
0.7
Question marks / 1k
4.7
Exclamation marks / 1k
2.5
Em-dashes / 1k
3.7
Parentheses / 1k
0.2

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