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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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“hope” across the centuries

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 1 / 12 1500s 1 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 2 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 4 / 161 1800s 32 / 683 1850s 33 / 937 1900s 16 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1550s · 3 with this theme Show all eras

Fancy, Farewell
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Fancy, Farewell

by Sir Edward Dyer · English

Sir Edward Dyer portrait

c. October 1543 - 11 May 1607 (~64)

Flow, my tears
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Flow, my tears

by John Dowland · English

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c. 1563 - 20 February 1626 (~63)

Since there's no help
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Since there's no help

by Michael Drayton · English

Michael Drayton portrait

1563 - December 1631 (~68)

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