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Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

Project Gutenberg #27 · EN · 137,190 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, rich vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: pastoral, melancholy, earthy, gently ironic
  • 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
141,260
Sentences
8,440
Mean sentence length
16.7 words (std 14.0, p50 13, p90 35)
MTLD (vocab richness)
98.7
Type-token ratio
0.080
Commas / 1k
74.5
Periods / 1k
49.3
Semicolons / 1k
5.3
Colons / 1k
1.7
Question marks / 1k
5.3
Exclamation marks / 1k
5.5
Em-dashes / 1k
10.6
Parentheses / 1k
0.8

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