A style analysis library based on the book by Walker Gibson
- What is the proportion of monosyllables in the passage?
- What is the proportion of words of more than two syllables?
- How many first- and second-person pronouns does the passage contain? How many imperatives are there?
- Are the subjects of the finite verbs mostly neuter nouns, or do they refer to people?
- What is the proportion of finite verbs to total words?
- What proportion of these finite verbs are forms of to be?
- What proportion of these verbs are in the passive voice?
- What proportion of the total words are true adjectives?
- How many of these adjectives are themselves modified by adverbs?
- What proportion of the total words are noun adjuncts?
- What is the average length of the subordinate clauses?
- What proportion of the total passage is inside such clauses?
- How frequently are subject and main verb separated by intervening subordinate structures? How long are these interruptions?
- How frequent is the determiner the?
- Are there any sentences without subjects, or without verbs, or both? Are there any contractions?
- How many occurences are there of these marks of punctuation: parentheses, italics, dashes, question marks, exclamation points?