About

  • Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Language: en
  • Size: 5357 words
91
Above-average stylistic quality and level of literary devices. The author demonstrates the ability to use a variety of linguistic tools while avoiding excessive clichés and serious stylistic errors. The text is rich in expressive means and maintains balance. High level of lexical diversity. Satisfactory structural diversity. The text shows a balance between different types of sentences, but further improvement could enhance its expressiveness and dynamism. A very high level of coherence. The text demonstrates clear logic and consistency of ideas. Optimal balance between dialogues and narration. Dialogues add liveliness and naturalness to the text without overwhelming it. Perfect dialogues. Every line sounds natural, emotional, and smooth, with an excellent balance of structural variety and conversational elements. The text has a harmonious combination of simple and complex sentences. The text is entirely free of redundant content. Each sentence is meaningful, delivering exclusively useful and targeted information. Perfect tonality. The text demonstrates an ideal balance between emotional richness and neutral parts. Perfect rhythm. The text demonstrates an ideal balance between short and long sentences, maintaining smooth and natural narrative flow. The text is extremely simple, with minimal complexity. Suitable for young children or people with limited reading skills. Complete genre conformity. The text perfectly reflects all stylistic, thematic, and structural elements of the genre.

Basic scores

  • Stylistic Devices
    83
  • Lexical Diversity
    77
  • Structural Diversity
    73
  • Consistency and Coherence
    91
  • Dialogues Quality
    100
  • Sentences Complexity
    90
  • Text Tonality
    95
  • Redundant content
    100
  • Rhythm and Tempo
    98
  • Readability
    96
  • Genre Conformity
    96

Full text analysis

Quality of Figures of Speech Usage
70
Diversity of Figures of Speech Usage
63
Contextual Relevance of Figures of Speech
71

0.92%

Metaphors

An average level of metaphors.

I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.
Your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog.
a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean
long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect
Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from below.

0.67%

Personification

The level of personification is at the lower limit of the norm.

the wind whispered through the trees
the sun smiled down on us
Time marches on.
There was such a ring of conviction in his voice that I glanced up in surprise.
the moon shone clear above them

0.08%

Similes

The level of similes is at the lower limit of the norm.

He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect.

3.8%

Epithets

A level of epithets slightly above average.

Originality and quality

4.08%

Cliche

A very low level of clichés. The text mostly uses original expressions, adding expressiveness and originality to the narrative.

He now took the stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes.
Dr. Mortimer drew a folded newspaper out of his pocket.
Being himself childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should, within his own lifetime, profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.
There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play, or to imagine that death could be from any but natural causes.

10.88%

Passive voice

Minimal use of passive voice.

2.04%

Bureaucratic language

The text is almost completely free from bureaucratic language.

I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.” said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
More wise than those who go on until the wheel turns against them, he realized his gains and returned to England with them.

0%

Pleonasms

The text is almost completely free from pleonasms.

HD-D
0.87
MTLD
105.21
Simpson's Diversity Index
0.01
MATTR
0.9
Structure Diversity Index
0.66
Interpolations
35.15%
Clause percentage
4.93%

Clause Diversity and Frequency

Average subclause per sentence
1.1
Subclause percentage
52.49%
Max Subclause depth
3
Object Clause Percentage
36.69%
Purpose Clause Percentage
0%
Relative Clause Percentage
28.23%
Temporal Clause Percentage
0.81%
Adverbial Clause Percentage
33.47%
Complement Clause Percentage
0.4%
Concessive Clause Percentage
1.21%
Paratactic Clause Percentage
1.21%
Conditional Clause Percentage
2.02%

Diversity of Sentence Structures

Simple Sentence Percentage
36.82%
Complex Sentence Percentage
43.51%
Compound Sentence Percentage
7.11%
Complex Compound Sentence Percentage
11.72%
Unconjunct Compound Sentence Percentage
0.84%
Modal Sentence Percentage
20.5%
Passive Sentence Percentage
10.88%
Adverbial Sentence Percentage
0%
Imperative Sentence Percentage
0%
Exclamatory Sentence Percentage
2.51%
Participial Sentence Percentage
43.1%
Interrogative Sentence Percentage
10.04%
Adverbial Clause Sentence Percentage
12.97%

10%

Percentage of polysemous sentences

The text contains almost no ambiguity. This indicates that the ideas and expressions in the text are clear and understandable, without any vagueness or phrases that are difficult to interpret.

88

Idea consistency

The text demonstrates a high level of consistency, where each idea naturally follows the previous one.

85.6

Semantic distance

The text exhibits excellent coherence between ideas. Transitions between concepts are logical and smooth.

90

Sentence coherence

All sentences are excellently connected. The logic of transitions between them is clear and consistent.

85

Thematic coherence

A high level of thematic coherence. Ideas smoothly transition into one another, supporting the main theme without significant deviations.

95

Lexical homogeneity

The text is fully consistent in its use of vocabulary. The style and lexicon are extremely uniform, but this may lead to monotony and reduce the text’s dynamism.

85

Paragraph coherence

Paragraphs are excellently connected. Transitions between them are natural and logical, creating a cohesive impression of the text.

90

Structural integrity

The text has a clear and well-thought-out structure. Ideas develop logically, and transitions between parts are natural and maintain textual coherence.

92

Temporal consistency

Temporal transitions in the text are natural and sequential. Events and ideas develop in a logical temporal order without significant disruptions.

90

Grammatical consistency

The text contains almost no errors. The grammatical structure is consistent, with only occasional minor slips.

85

Speech style consistency

The speech style in the text remains almost unchanged. The text is consistently held in one tone, making it cohesive and easy to follow.

80

Transitions between parts

Transitions between different parts of the text are smooth and logical. They help the text remain cohesive and unified.

Average repeated words
0.26
Average syntactic cohesion
7.16

Overall

62%

Dialogues take up a significant portion of the text but do not overwhelm it. This creates a good narrative rhythm while maintaining a balance between description and speech.

Structural diversity

Average Sentence Length
15.18
Average Diversity
66.67
Diversity Coefficient
44.96
Complex Sentences
53.02%

Smoothness of the rhythm

Coefficient of alternation of replica lengths
43.24
Average Length Difference
9.32
Standard Deviation
9.88

90

Coherence

The lines are smoothly and naturally connected, with characters interacting logically and naturally.

0.65%

Average conversational phrases

The dialogues contain a reasonable amount of conversational expressions, making them natural and accessible.

0.15%

Almost no excessive content.

Average Sentence Length
21
Average Complexity Percentage
12.64%
Subclause Percentage
52.49%
Depth of Subclauses
3
Average Number of Subclauses per Sentence
1.1
Total Simple Sentences
36.82%
Total Complex Sentences
63.18%
56.08%
20.23%
23.69%

Text temperature

0%

Intensifiers usage

Almost no use of intensifiers.

0.03%

Exclamation marks

An optimal amount of exclamation marks.

1.3%

Most repeated words

night, stick, visitor, family, eyes, said, man, country, dear, little

3.8%

Redundant words

very late, fine, thick, keen pleasure, naked eyes, little wavering

1.37%

Unnecessary transition words

so, well, then, yet, still

Tautologies
2.3%
Excessive description
5.4%
Repeated scene
3.6%
Excessive detail
6%
Rhythm Index
0.82
Rhythm Diversity Index
1.21
Alternation Index
0.36
Punctuation Density
1.61%

!

0.03%

?

0.11%

:

0.02%

;

0%

,

1.37%

-

0.13%

0%

0.04%

35

Sentence Alternation

Moderate alternation of sentences creates a smooth rhythm, helping to maintain the narrative’s dynamism.

Median Sentence Length
14
Mean Sentence Length
17.69
Standard Deviation of Sentence Lengths
13.79
Average Difference in Sentence Lengths
10.74
Short Sentence Ratio
0.3
Medium Sentence Ratio
0.39
Long Sentence Ratio
0.31

29

Paragraph Alternation

A good balance of alternating paragraph lengths. The text appears structured and lively.

Paragraph Avgerage Length
2.53
Standard Deviation of Paragraph Lengths
2.14
Short Paragraph Ratio
0.76
Long Paragraph Ratio
0.02
Average Difference in Paragraph Lengths
1.72

81

Flesch index

The text is very easy to read and accessible to people with basic reading skills.

Total words
4084
Total sentences
239
Total syllables
5218
Average sentence length in words
17.09
Average number of syllables per word
1.28
Language style
94
Coherence and Consistency
98
Dialogues' concentration
86
Rhythm and tempo
98
Redundant content
100
Tonality
98