Self-Comparison of William Shakespeare

Self-Comparison of William Shakespeare

Summary

William Shakespeare has 105040 lines, and 2% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ elsewhere in the same text. 31% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 67% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.03 strong matches and 0.84 weak matches. Select a section to see line by line comparisons.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

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Sections Lines 15+ 10+ Matches 15+ 10+

Apocrypha

7859 2% 28% 5457 0.03/line 0.69/line

Comedies

34607 2% 35% 33958 0.04/line 0.98/line

Histories

26803 2% 34% 25863 0.04/line 0.96/line

Poems

6625 1% 19% 2216 0.01/line 0.33/line

Tragedies

29146 1% 32% 24256 0.02/line 0.83/line