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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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“pain” across the centuries

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spain 5 poems painted 1 poem paine 1 poem

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 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 5 / 176 1650s 2 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 8 / 161 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 45 / 937 1900s 30 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

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

Out of Sight, Out of Mind
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

by Barnabe Googe · English

Barnabe Googe portrait

11 June 1540 - February 1594 (~54)

Sephestia's Song to Her Child
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Sephestia's Song to Her Child

by Robert Greene · English

Robert Greene portrait

c. 11 July 1558 - 3 September 1592 (~34)

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