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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Project Gutenberg #1114 · EN · 22,618 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: gilded, mercantile, bittersweet, tense beneath wit
  • 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
22,725
Sentences
1,223
Mean sentence length
18.6 words (std 21.9, p50 10, p90 45)
MTLD (vocab richness)
85.4
Type-token ratio
0.161
Commas / 1k
93.0
Periods / 1k
46.4
Semicolons / 1k
4.4
Colons / 1k
14.4
Question marks / 1k
8.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
0.2
Em-dashes / 1k
0.0
Parentheses / 1k
1.8

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