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The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902)

Project Gutenberg #396 · EN · 2,726 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: wry, suspended, archaic, tantalizingly unresolved
  • 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
2,733
Sentences
101
Mean sentence length
27.1 words (std 19.5, p50 21, p90 47)
MTLD (vocab richness)
77.5
Type-token ratio
0.303
Commas / 1k
79.0
Periods / 1k
30.7
Semicolons / 1k
6.2
Colons / 1k
1.5
Question marks / 1k
3.3
Exclamation marks / 1k
2.6
Em-dashes / 1k
0.7
Parentheses / 1k
0.0

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