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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

Project Gutenberg #46 · EN · 28,541 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: warm tone, moderate vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: warm, redemptive, festive, vivid, Victorian-sentimental
  • 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
29,136
Sentences
1,941
Mean sentence length
15.0 words (std 15.2, p50 10, p90 34)
MTLD (vocab richness)
82.6
Type-token ratio
0.147
Commas / 1k
94.7
Periods / 1k
46.8
Semicolons / 1k
12.7
Colons / 1k
2.6
Question marks / 1k
5.5
Exclamation marks / 1k
14.1
Em-dashes / 1k
2.8
Parentheses / 1k
1.2

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