Analysis for One for Sorrow

Lexical analysis

Number of words (tokens): 2757
Number of distinct words (types): 1007
Average number of words per sentence: 10.44
Average number of words per paragraph: 306.33
Lexical Density: 0.37
Longest Word: 'self-revulsion.' (15)
Shortest Word: 'ago' (3)
Ten Most Frequent Words:
fire 18
long 12
like 11
first 11
now 10
never 9
one 9
time 8
nothing 8
look 7

Textual analysis

Number of paragraphs: 9
Average number of sentences per paragraph:: 29.33
Longest Sentence: 'it was like a miniature town all of it’s own, each honest and un-honest soul, jammed together in hard little rooms, family feuds growing with the years and a thousand lives that meant nothing to the world all ending in their separate ways.' (43 words)
Shortest Sentence: 'a room.' (2 words)
Readability according to Gunning-Fog Index
(the higher, the harder to read):
5.73
Readability according to Automated Readability Index
(the higher, the harder to read):
-2.46
Readability according to Coleman-Liau Index
(the higher, the harder to read):
1.4
Average readability
(the higher, the harder to read):
1.56

Phrasal analysis

Ten most frequent two-word phrases:
long ago 3
see nothing 2
“he’s taken 2
junkie’s twitch 2
third floor 2
silver bells 2
first time 2
long gone 2
dancing fire 1
every discarded 1
Ten most frequent three-word phrases:
echoes cover centuries 1
real power lies 1
bone flute flows 1
life rises across 1
mayor can’t pay 1
still plays better 1
long forgotten reason 1
nearly seventy years 1
finding remarkably hard 1
sometimes stronger still 1
Ten most frequent two-word phrases, including stop words
in the 21
of the 18
is the 11
the fire 11
he is 10
to the 10
he had 9
and the 8
the first 7
there is 7
Ten most frequent three-word phrases, including stop words:
it might have 4
might have been 4
there is the 4
the fire the 3
have been he 2
nothing at all 2
had told her 2
he raises his 2
and he had 2
colour of the 2
Most frequent two-word phrases:
long ago 3
see nothing 2
“he’s taken 2
junkie’s twitch 2
third floor 2
silver bells 2
first time 2
long gone 2
Most frequent five-word phrases:
the boy with the limp 2
it might have been he 2
might have been he heard 2
Most frequent two-word phrases, including stop words:
in the 21
of the 18
is the 11
the fire 11
he is 10
to the 10
he had 9
and the 8
it is 7
from the 7
there is 7
the first 7
with the 6
and he 6
that is 6
the last 5
his mind 5
have been 5
into the 5
is not 5
as if 5
the second 4
he has 4
of his 4
the world 4
is a 4
might have 4
the music 4
there are 4
in all 4
as the 4
it might 4
a thousand 4
she had 4
of course 4
they are 4
for the 4
the only 4
the sea 4
by the 3
if you 3
the river 3
enough to 3
his head 3
a man 3
colour of 3
at least 3
look up 3
and a 3
when he 3
(who is 3
across the 3
at all 3
the years 3
on the 3
fire the 3
the old 3
was a 3
for a 3
in a 3
the darkness 3
but it 3
the colour 3
like this 3
not the 3
it was 3
the cloak 3
is gone 3
little more 3
of a 3
to die 3
the coat 3
when the 3
the third 3
in his 3
long ago 3
a long 2
and wasted 2
floor is 2
a ghost 2
memory of 2
silver bells 2
and white 2
bones and 2
you see 2
the sky 2
if he 2
the edge 2
above the 2
long gone 2
who is 2
is no 2
you would 2
third floor 2
he raises 2
he tells 2
to his 2
shuffle and 2
a piper 2
is strong 2
laughed at 2
he plays 2
where the 2
but he 2
the woman 2
against the 2
his lips 2
black and 2
edge of 2
hurts to 2
of them 2
the children 2
his pride 2
at him 2
nothing but 2
the thin 2
had told 2
music is 2
like the 2
but a 2
the town 2
been he 2
how he 2
and terrible 2
come here 2
junkie’s twitch 2
the stories 2
not a 2
boy with 2
him what 2
the city 2
the rats 2
strange and 2
and in 2
the less 2
told her 2
nothing at 2
woven into 2
like a 2
what is 2
then the 2
see nothing 2
the piper’s 2
the night 2
the photograph 2
before the 2
after that 2
the flames 2
before him 2
honest and 2
nether the 2
and then 2
and yet 2
than any 2
told the 2
as they 2
he can 2
the laughter 2
raises his 2
has come 2
is old 2
heat that 2
are the 2
trying to 2
into it 2
a little 2
with a 2
more than 2
coat is 2
the man 2
heard those 2
he was 2
the meeting 2
had been 2
first time 2
hates himself 2
he doesn’t 2
this is 2
he stops 2
loved him 2
the boy 2
of broken 2
“he’s taken 2
the end 2
the piper 2
is like 2
from it 2
it hurts 2
what he 2
of hamelin 2
here to 2
and his 2
it’s not 2
he knows 2
it and 2
his tale 2
the sun 2
sharp and 2
a single 2
the story 2
the limp 2
and dark 2
should be 2
has no 2
he heard 2
tonight he 2
Most frequent three-word phrases, including stop words:
it might have 4
there is the 4
might have been 4
the fire the 3
edge of the 2
he is the 2
it is the 2
is not a 2
to his lips 2
nether the less 2
there is no 2
he had been 2
but it is 2
the first time 2
the boy with 2
has come here 2
the third floor 2
nothing at all 2
trying to die 2
he raises his 2
he was a 2
come here to 2
it hurts to 2
of the sea 2
he had told 2
colour of the 2
been he heard 2
the colour of 2
the edge of 2
when the last 2
to the world 2
in the end 2
and he had 2
boy with the 2
with the limp 2
have been he 2
for the first 2
laughed at him 2
had told her 2
the coat is 2
above the fire 2
there are the 2
Most frequent four-word phrases, including stop words:
it might have been 4
above the fire the 2
the boy with the 2
the edge of the 2
for the first time 2
boy with the limp 2
have been he heard 2
might have been he 2
has come here to 2
colour of the sea 2
he had told her 2