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Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Robert Bell (1800–1867)

Project Gutenberg #649 · EN · 67,325 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, moderate vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: earthy, lyrical, folk-worn, pastoral, quietly worn
  • 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
68,574
Sentences
3,140
Mean sentence length
21.8 words (std 17.0, p50 20, p90 41)
MTLD (vocab richness)
75.2
Type-token ratio
0.112
Commas / 1k
103.7
Periods / 1k
34.6
Semicolons / 1k
16.0
Colons / 1k
3.2
Question marks / 1k
2.9
Exclamation marks / 1k
8.8
Em-dashes / 1k
3.2
Parentheses / 1k
5.1

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