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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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— none — world life love death beauty nature self social beloved divine memory desire spiritual heart grief power romantic suffering woman light soul dead loss body pain wind philosophical voice music landscape hope religious sorrow spring flowers children faith bird water rose mortality silence lover domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth women dream flower irish garden mind rain summer lovers

“lover” across the centuries

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love 896 poems lovers 52 poems clover 2 poems

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 1 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 6 / 89 1600s 14 / 176 1650s 4 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 8 / 684 1850s 15 / 940 1900s 14 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1550s · 6 with this theme Show all eras

A Lover's Lullaby
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A Lover's Lullaby

by George Gascoigne · English

George Gascoigne portrait

c. 1539 - 7 October 1577 (~38)

Come Away, Death
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Come Away, Death

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

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

by Henry Constable · English

Henry Constable portrait

1562 - October 1613 (~51)

Now peep, bo-peep
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Now peep, bo-peep

by Francis Pilkington · English

Francis Pilkington portrait

c. 1565 - 1638 (~73)

Only Joy, Now Here You Are
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Only Joy, Now Here You Are

by Sir Philip Sidney · English

Sir Philip Sidney portrait

30 November 1554 - 17 October 1586 (~32)

What Thing Is Love
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What Thing Is Love

by George Peele · English

George Peele portrait

c. 25 July 1556 - 9 November 1596 (~40)

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