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The Fifth String

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932)

Project Gutenberg #504 · EN · 21,927 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: romantic, melodic, wistful, gilded Americana
  • 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
22,408
Sentences
1,332
Mean sentence length
16.8 words (std 13.4, p50 14, p90 31)
MTLD (vocab richness)
95.7
Type-token ratio
0.179
Commas / 1k
79.0
Periods / 1k
50.2
Semicolons / 1k
6.7
Colons / 1k
3.9
Question marks / 1k
5.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
3.7
Em-dashes / 1k
3.7
Parentheses / 1k
0.1

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