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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

Project Gutenberg #844 · EN · 20,714 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: effervescent, witty, light-footed, sparkling green comedy
  • 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
21,020
Sentences
3,158
Mean sentence length
6.7 words (std 6.9, p50 5, p90 16)
MTLD (vocab richness)
76.6
Type-token ratio
0.123
Commas / 1k
57.8
Periods / 1k
130.8
Semicolons / 1k
1.4
Colons / 1k
0.6
Question marks / 1k
12.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
11.2
Em-dashes / 1k
1.3
Parentheses / 1k
30.6

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