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A Modest Proposal
 For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

Project Gutenberg #1080 · EN · 3,420 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: dry, savage irony beneath civil detachment
  • 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
3,433
Sentences
68
Mean sentence length
50.5 words (std 32.7, p50 43, p90 90)
MTLD (vocab richness)
114.3
Type-token ratio
0.315
Commas / 1k
106.3
Periods / 1k
19.2
Semicolons / 1k
7.6
Colons / 1k
4.4
Question marks / 1k
0.3
Exclamation marks / 1k
0.3
Em-dashes / 1k
0.0
Parentheses / 1k
4.1

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