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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

Project Gutenberg #13 · EN · 5,177 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: whimsical, surreal, absurdist, lightly gothic
  • 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
5,289
Sentences
231
Mean sentence length
22.9 words (std 15.1, p50 21, p90 36)
MTLD (vocab richness)
83.2
Type-token ratio
0.279
Commas / 1k
74.7
Periods / 1k
28.2
Semicolons / 1k
6.2
Colons / 1k
12.9
Question marks / 1k
0.8
Exclamation marks / 1k
14.6
Em-dashes / 1k
14.0
Parentheses / 1k
10.0

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