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The Red Inn

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

Project Gutenberg #1433 · EN · 13,035 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: crimson dread, gothic menace, bourgeois horror
  • 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
13,183
Sentences
737
Mean sentence length
17.9 words (std 14.5, p50 15, p90 36)
MTLD (vocab richness)
95.9
Type-token ratio
0.218
Commas / 1k
77.4
Periods / 1k
44.1
Semicolons / 1k
10.7
Colons / 1k
0.8
Question marks / 1k
4.9
Exclamation marks / 1k
6.8
Em-dashes / 1k
3.0
Parentheses / 1k
1.0

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