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Hard Times

Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

Project Gutenberg #786 · EN · 103,253 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: industrial grime, bitter satire, oppressive warmth
  • 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
105,432
Sentences
5,955
Mean sentence length
17.7 words (std 16.0, p50 13, p90 38)
MTLD (vocab richness)
81.7
Type-token ratio
0.084
Commas / 1k
98.8
Periods / 1k
44.5
Semicolons / 1k
8.2
Colons / 1k
1.4
Question marks / 1k
5.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
6.0
Em-dashes / 1k
5.7
Parentheses / 1k
2.2

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