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The Pool in the Desert

Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861–1922)

Project Gutenberg #1168 · EN · 67,916 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: balanced tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: warm, colonial, observant, quietly ironic
  • 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
69,502
Sentences
4,112
Mean sentence length
16.9 words (std 13.3, p50 13, p90 35)
MTLD (vocab richness)
100.2
Type-token ratio
0.104
Commas / 1k
69.0
Periods / 1k
50.1
Semicolons / 1k
7.3
Colons / 1k
0.2
Question marks / 1k
5.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
4.0
Em-dashes / 1k
8.8
Parentheses / 1k
0.1

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