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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

Project Gutenberg #205 · EN · 115,813 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, flowing rhythm
  • LLM: contemplative, naturalist, quietly radical, earthy
  • 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
117,131
Sentences
4,069
Mean sentence length
28.8 words (std 23.3, p50 23, p90 57)
MTLD (vocab richness)
89.5
Type-token ratio
0.094
Commas / 1k
82.0
Periods / 1k
30.9
Semicolons / 1k
9.2
Colons / 1k
0.3
Question marks / 1k
2.6
Exclamation marks / 1k
1.3
Em-dashes / 1k
4.3
Parentheses / 1k
0.6

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