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Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense

W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert (1836–1911)

Project Gutenberg #757 · EN · 28,256 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: comic, playful, absurdist, Victorian wit
  • 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
29,299
Sentences
1,521
Mean sentence length
19.3 words (std 14.1, p50 19, p90 36)
MTLD (vocab richness)
98.7
Type-token ratio
0.189
Commas / 1k
100.6
Periods / 1k
32.0
Semicolons / 1k
9.3
Colons / 1k
4.5
Question marks / 1k
3.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
16.9
Em-dashes / 1k
20.2
Parentheses / 1k
11.2

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