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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
Project Gutenberg #1091 · EN · 88,537 words · ingested 26 May 2026
Hues
- Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, flowing rhythm
- LLM: fervent, thunderous, Victorian-prophetic, morally urgent
- 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
- 90,115
- Sentences
- 4,052
- Mean sentence length
- 22.2 words (std 14.1, p50 19, p90 41)
- MTLD (vocab richness)
- 90.5
- Type-token ratio
- 0.094
- Commas / 1k
- 94.8
- Periods / 1k
- 32.9
- Semicolons / 1k
- 24.2
- Colons / 1k
- 7.8
- Question marks / 1k
- 4.1
- Exclamation marks / 1k
- 7.9
- Em-dashes / 1k
- 7.2
- Parentheses / 1k
- 0.9
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