What happens when you analyze a text by deleting the words, leaving only the punctuation marks? Clive Thompson created an online tool that allows you to do just that. Here is a link to his website, which is called “just the punctuation”, and here is an extended excerpt from his essay “What I Learned about My Writing by Seeing Only the Punctuation” (italics and the final ellipsis in the original):

“Back in 2016, Adam J. Calhoun wrote a fascinating Medium post in which he showed off something quite cool: What novels look like if you strip away the words, and show just the punctuation. *** This image below? On the left, it’s Calhoun’s analysis of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, compared to Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, on the right …”