| 100.00% | Adverbs in dialogue tags | Target: ≤10% dialogue tags with adverbs | | totalTags | 16 | | adverbTagCount | 0 | | adverbTags | (empty) | | dialogueSentences | 39 | | tagDensity | 0.41 | | leniency | 0.821 | | rawRatio | 0 | | effectiveRatio | 0 | |
| 90.64% | AI-ism adverb frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism adverbs (58 tracked) | | wordCount | 1068 | | totalAiIsmAdverbs | 2 | | found | | | highlights | | |
| 100.00% | AI-ism character names | Target: 0 AI-default names (17 tracked, −20% each) | | codexExemptions | (empty) | | found | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | AI-ism location names | Target: 0 AI-default location names (33 tracked, −20% each) | | codexExemptions | (empty) | | found | (empty) | |
| 62.55% | AI-ism word frequency | Target: <2% AI-ism words (290 tracked) | | wordCount | 1068 | | totalAiIsms | 8 | | found | | | highlights | | 0 | "silk" | | 1 | "weight" | | 2 | "pulsed" | | 3 | "stomach" | | 4 | "whisper" | | 5 | "gleaming" | | 6 | "ceaseless" |
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| 100.00% | Cliché density | Target: ≤1 cliche(s) per 800-word window | | totalCliches | 0 | | maxInWindow | 0 | | found | (empty) | | highlights | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Emotion telling (show vs. tell) | Target: ≤3% sentences with emotion telling | | emotionTells | 0 | | narrationSentences | 72 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Filter word density | Target: ≤3% sentences with filter/hedge words | | filterCount | 1 | | hedgeCount | 0 | | narrationSentences | 72 | | filterMatches | | | hedgeMatches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Gibberish response detection | Target: ≤1% gibberish-like sentences (hard fail if a sentence exceeds 800 words) | | analyzedSentences | 92 | | gibberishSentences | 0 | | adjustedGibberishSentences | 0 | | longSentenceCount | 0 | | runOnParagraphCount | 0 | | giantParagraphCount | 0 | | wordSaladCount | 0 | | repetitionLoopCount | 0 | | controlTokenCount | 0 | | repeatedSegmentCount | 0 | | maxSentenceWordsSeen | 55 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Markdown formatting overuse | Target: ≤5% words in markdown formatting | | markdownSpans | 0 | | markdownWords | 0 | | totalWords | 1079 | | ratio | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Missing dialogue indicators (quotation marks) | Target: ≤10% speech attributions without quotation marks | | totalAttributions | 13 | | unquotedAttributions | 0 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 95.59% | Name drop frequency | Target: ≤1.0 per-name mentions per 100 words | | totalMentions | 22 | | wordCount | 919 | | uniqueNames | 5 | | maxNameDensity | 1.09 | | worstName | "Aurora" | | maxWindowNameDensity | 2 | | worstWindowName | "Aurora" | | discoveredNames | | Aurora | 10 | | Shade | 1 | | Isolde | 5 | | Fae | 1 | | Nyx | 5 |
| | persons | | 0 | "Aurora" | | 1 | "Shade" | | 2 | "Isolde" | | 3 | "Nyx" |
| | places | (empty) | | globalScore | 0.956 | | windowScore | 1 | |
| 0.00% | Narrator intent-glossing | Target: ≤2% narration sentences with intent-glossing patterns | | analyzedSentences | 47 | | glossingSentenceCount | 5 | | matches | | 0 | "as though greeting an old acquaintance she did not much care for" | | 1 | "something like rosemary but taller than a ma" | | 2 | "looked like a whole roasted something big" | | 3 | "seemed fevered" | | 4 | "as if reading something written on its linen" |
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| 0.00% | "Not X but Y" pattern overuse | Target: ≤1 "not X but Y" per 1000 words | | totalMatches | 4 | | per1kWords | 3.707 | | wordCount | 1079 | | matches | | 0 | "not the sting of fever but something low" | | 1 | "not rust, not clay, but the deep seeping red of a pomegranate broken open" | | 2 | "not clay, but the deep seeping red of a pomegranate broken open" | | 3 | "not a city but a table" |
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| 100.00% | Overuse of "that" (subordinate clause padding) | Target: ≤2% sentences with "that" clauses | | thatCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 92 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Paragraph length variance | Target: CV ≥0.5 for paragraph word counts | | totalParagraphs | 41 | | mean | 26.32 | | std | 24.62 | | cv | 0.935 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 11 | | 1 | 64 | | 2 | 38 | | 3 | 38 | | 4 | 4 | | 5 | 61 | | 6 | 22 | | 7 | 9 | | 8 | 13 | | 9 | 33 | | 10 | 83 | | 11 | 23 | | 12 | 2 | | 13 | 13 | | 14 | 2 | | 15 | 68 | | 16 | 39 | | 17 | 12 | | 18 | 2 | | 19 | 2 | | 20 | 19 | | 21 | 83 | | 22 | 35 | | 23 | 8 | | 24 | 18 | | 25 | 56 | | 26 | 57 | | 27 | 10 | | 28 | 6 | | 29 | 27 | | 30 | 22 | | 31 | 5 | | 32 | 9 | | 33 | 3 | | 34 | 90 | | 35 | 7 | | 36 | 22 | | 37 | 14 | | 38 | 6 | | 39 | 31 | | 40 | 12 |
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| 100.00% | Passive voice overuse | Target: ≤2% passive sentences | | passiveCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 72 | | matches | | |
| 100.00% | Past progressive (was/were + -ing) overuse | Target: ≤2% past progressive verbs | | pastProgressiveCount | 0 | | totalVerbs | 151 | | matches | (empty) | |
| 0.00% | Em-dash & semicolon overuse | Target: ≤2% sentences with em-dashes/semicolons | | emDashCount | 11 | | semicolonCount | 0 | | flaggedSentences | 8 | | totalSentences | 92 | | ratio | 0.087 | | matches | | 0 | "She felt the heat first — not the sting of fever but something low and steady, the way a hearth felt from across a room." | | 1 | "The soil was red — not rust, not clay, but the deep seeping red of a pomegranate broken open — and it bulged gently beneath her boots like dough that had not yet stopped rising." | | 2 | "She paused between two standing stones that had not been standing stones a moment before — pillars of basalt, weeping sap the colour of honey — and laid her palm against one as though greeting an old acquaintance she did not much care for." | | 3 | "The land rolled into terraces — vineyards, Aurora realised, though the vines climbed trellises of bone so white they glowed faintly under the copper sky." | | 4 | "She had eaten an hour ago — she was certain she had eaten an hour ago — but the hunger that opened beneath her ribs now was not a usual hunger." | | 5 | "Through its branches she glimpsed motion — pale figures moving with purpose, carrying trays, carrying crates, carrying what looked like a whole roasted something bigger than a horse." | | 6 | "The hedge gave way to a long shallow slope studded with trees she had no name for — trunks braided like challah, bark a deep plum, and from each bough fruit hung in shapes that refused to settle: one moment a pear, the next a fist, the next something too soft-edged to look at directly." | | 7 | "Below them a valley opened — not a valley so much as a bowl the size of a small country, and every inch of it was cultivated." |
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| 100.00% | Purple prose (modifier overload) | Target: <4% adverbs, <2% -ly adverbs, no adj stacking | | wordCount | 913 | | adjectiveStacks | 0 | | stackExamples | (empty) | | adverbCount | 25 | | adverbRatio | 0.027382256297918947 | | lyAdverbCount | 6 | | lyAdverbRatio | 0.0065717415115005475 | |
| 100.00% | Repeated phrase echo | Target: ≤20% sentences with echoes (window: 2) | | totalSentences | 92 | | echoCount | 0 | | echoWords | (empty) | |
| 100.00% | Sentence length variance | Target: CV ≥0.4 for sentence word counts | | totalSentences | 92 | | mean | 11.73 | | std | 10.65 | | cv | 0.908 | | sampleLengths | | 0 | 11 | | 1 | 25 | | 2 | 18 | | 3 | 21 | | 4 | 3 | | 5 | 30 | | 6 | 5 | | 7 | 3 | | 8 | 35 | | 9 | 3 | | 10 | 1 | | 11 | 17 | | 12 | 44 | | 13 | 7 | | 14 | 15 | | 15 | 4 | | 16 | 5 | | 17 | 6 | | 18 | 7 | | 19 | 8 | | 20 | 15 | | 21 | 10 | | 22 | 12 | | 23 | 29 | | 24 | 4 | | 25 | 20 | | 26 | 18 | | 27 | 7 | | 28 | 8 | | 29 | 8 | | 30 | 2 | | 31 | 11 | | 32 | 2 | | 33 | 2 | | 34 | 25 | | 35 | 40 | | 36 | 3 | | 37 | 3 | | 38 | 31 | | 39 | 3 | | 40 | 2 | | 41 | 10 | | 42 | 2 | | 43 | 2 | | 44 | 2 | | 45 | 7 | | 46 | 6 | | 47 | 6 | | 48 | 30 | | 49 | 28 |
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| 84.42% | Sentence opener variety | Target: ≥60% unique sentence openers | | consecutiveRepeats | 4 | | diversityRatio | 0.532608695652174 | | totalSentences | 92 | | uniqueOpeners | 49 | |
| 59.52% | Adverb-first sentence starts | Target: ≥3% sentences starting with an adverb | | adverbCount | 1 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | | 0 | "Then came the air, thick" |
| | ratio | 0.018 | |
| 77.14% | Pronoun-first sentence starts | Target: ≤30% sentences starting with a pronoun | | pronounCount | 20 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | | 0 | "She felt the heat first" | | 1 | "Her lungs took it in" | | 2 | "Their voice curled around her" | | 3 | "She looked down." | | 4 | "She paused between two standing" | | 5 | "It pulsed against her fingers" | | 6 | "She set her jaw and" | | 7 | "It was a bruise of" | | 8 | "Her own shadow crossed itself" | | 9 | "They had drifted up beside" | | 10 | "Her stomach growled." | | 11 | "She had eaten an hour" | | 12 | "It was wide." | | 13 | "She pulled her gaze from" | | 14 | "Her mouth was flooded with" | | 15 | "She swallowed hard and tasted" | | 16 | "She had, Aurora noticed, left" | | 17 | "They gestured, a ripple of" | | 18 | "She tucked both hands into" | | 19 | "She let the breath go." |
| | ratio | 0.357 | |
| 40.36% | Subject-first sentence starts | Target: ≤72% sentences starting with a subject | | subjectCount | 47 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | | 0 | "The pendant woke against Aurora's" | | 1 | "She felt the heat first" | | 2 | "Her lungs took it in" | | 3 | "Their voice curled around her" | | 4 | "She looked down." | | 5 | "The soil was red —" | | 6 | "Isolde came last, and the" | | 7 | "She paused between two standing" | | 8 | "Isolde corrected, not unkindly" | | 9 | "Aurora forced her hand down" | | 10 | "It pulsed against her fingers" | | 11 | "She set her jaw and" | | 12 | "The sky, when she let" | | 13 | "It was a bruise of" | | 14 | "Her own shadow crossed itself" | | 15 | "They had drifted up beside" | | 16 | "A thread of something that" | | 17 | "The land rolled into terraces" | | 18 | "The grapes hung in fat" | | 19 | "The dust hissed." |
| | ratio | 0.839 | |
| 0.00% | Subordinate conjunction sentence starts | Target: ≥2% sentences starting with a subordinating conjunction | | subConjCount | 0 | | totalSentences | 56 | | matches | (empty) | | ratio | 0 | |
| 0.00% | Technical jargon density | Target: ≤6% sentences with technical-jargon patterns | | analyzedSentences | 31 | | technicalSentenceCount | 7 | | matches | | 0 | "The soil was red — not rust, not clay, but the deep seeping red of a pomegranate broken open — and it bulged gently beneath her boots like dough that had not ye…" | | 1 | "She paused between two standing stones that had not been standing stones a moment before — pillars of basalt, weeping sap the colour of honey — and laid her pal…" | | 2 | "It was a bruise of gold and copper and, far higher, a deeper orange that moved in slow coiling bands, as if a great fire breathed behind a membrane." | | 3 | "There was only a pervasive glow that threw everything into afternoon without ever committing to a direction for the shadows." | | 4 | "The hedge gave way to a long shallow slope studded with trees she had no name for — trunks braided like challah, bark a deep plum, and from each bough fruit hun…" | | 5 | "Vineyards and orchards in spirals and concentric rings, silver rivers threading between them, and at the centre a city that was not a city but a table." | | 6 | "Isolde stepped up between them, silver hair lifting in a wind Aurora could not feel, pale lavender eyes fixed on the distant table as if reading something writt…" |
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| 62.50% | Useless dialogue additions | Target: ≤5% dialogue tags with trailing filler fragments | | totalTags | 16 | | uselessAdditionCount | 2 | | matches | | 0 | "Isolde corrected, not unkindly" | | 1 | "They gestured, a ripple of shadow at the end of an arm" |
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| 21.79% | Dialogue tag variety (said vs. fancy) | Target: ≤10% fancy dialogue tags | | totalTags | 13 | | fancyCount | 5 | | fancyTags | | 0 | "Nyx whispered (whisper)" | | 1 | "Aurora repeated (repeat)" | | 2 | "she murmured (murmur)" | | 3 | "Isolde corrected (correct)" | | 4 | "they murmured (murmur)" |
| | dialogueSentences | 39 | | tagDensity | 0.333 | | leniency | 0.667 | | rawRatio | 0.385 | | effectiveRatio | 0.256 | |