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The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems

Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

Project Gutenberg #592 · EN · 15,940 words · ingested 25 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, spare vocabulary, measured rhythm
  • LLM: luminous, chanting, folk-mythic, gold-tinged wonder
  • 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
16,190
Sentences
959
Mean sentence length
16.9 words (std 13.5, p50 13, p90 33)
MTLD (vocab richness)
55.7
Type-token ratio
0.222
Commas / 1k
86.1
Periods / 1k
57.1
Semicolons / 1k
3.0
Colons / 1k
9.4
Question marks / 1k
3.9
Exclamation marks / 1k
1.8
Em-dashes / 1k
8.6
Parentheses / 1k
3.8

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