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The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts

J. M. (John Millington) Synge (1871–1909)

Project Gutenberg #1240 · EN · 20,159 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: balanced tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: earthy, comic, lyrical, wild Irish exuberance
  • 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
21,459
Sentences
2,349
Mean sentence length
9.1 words (std 12.5, p50 4, p90 25)
MTLD (vocab richness)
83.2
Type-token ratio
0.131
Commas / 1k
66.3
Periods / 1k
93.1
Semicolons / 1k
2.3
Colons / 1k
0.0
Question marks / 1k
12.1
Exclamation marks / 1k
4.4
Em-dashes / 1k
18.1
Parentheses / 1k
18.0

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