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Sons of the Soil

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

Project Gutenberg #1417 · EN · 116,380 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: earthy, grim, provincial, densely observed
  • 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
119,137
Sentences
5,386
Mean sentence length
22.1 words (std 17.1, p50 18, p90 45)
MTLD (vocab richness)
95.2
Type-token ratio
0.088
Commas / 1k
83.3
Periods / 1k
36.3
Semicolons / 1k
10.7
Colons / 1k
0.6
Question marks / 1k
3.6
Exclamation marks / 1k
5.4
Em-dashes / 1k
4.2
Parentheses / 1k
1.8

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