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Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.

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“flowers” across the centuries

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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 6 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 161 1800s 15 / 683 1850s 24 / 937 1900s 27 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1550s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

My Ladies presence makes the roses red
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My Ladies presence makes the roses red

by Henry Constable · English

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1562 - October 1613 (~51)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

by Christopher Marlowe · English

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26 February 1564 - 30 May 1593 (~29)

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