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Henry Lawson (1867–1922)

Project Gutenberg #1313 · EN · 44,018 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: dusty, laconic, sun-worn Australian melancholy
  • 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
45,819
Sentences
2,541
Mean sentence length
18.0 words (std 14.9, p50 14, p90 36)
MTLD (vocab richness)
81.3
Type-token ratio
0.113
Commas / 1k
72.5
Periods / 1k
49.5
Semicolons / 1k
7.6
Colons / 1k
2.2
Question marks / 1k
4.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
4.4
Em-dashes / 1k
12.2
Parentheses / 1k
3.9

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