Too Much Description? Find the Balance.

Expressive language is essential to compelling writing—but too much of it can overwhelm your reader. The Descriptive Analyzer helps you find the right balance by identifying excessive use of adjectives, adverbs, participles, and intensifiers.

Through LitPulse’s algorithmic analysis of thousands of literary texts, we've discovered a strong correlation between high adverb ratios and purple prose—writing that feels overwrought, stylistically heavy, or needlessly elaborate.

This tool provides a breakdown of:

• Adjective and adverb density
• Chains of descriptive elements used consecutively
• Participial constructions contributing to sentence weight
• Use of intensifiers that amplify emotion or tone
• Stylistic frequency index (how description dominates the text)

While description can enhance mood and imagery, overuse—especially of adverbs and participle chains—can make prose sluggish, indirect, or melodramatic.

The Descriptive Analyzer empowers authors to:

• Detect stylistic overload
• Reduce unnecessary modifiers
• Improve sentence clarity and balance
• Achieve a more natural flow and tone

Whether you’re editing fiction, nonfiction, or web copy, this tool helps you avoid one of the most common style traps: over-describing what could be shown more simply.

Write with precision, not excess.

Try the Descriptive Analyzer to bring clarity, balance, and elegance to your style.