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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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“flower” + flow across the centuries

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flow 3 poems flowers 82 poems lower 1 poem

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

pre-1500 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 1 / 90 1600s 5 / 176 1650s 1 / 58 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 163 1800s 14 / 685 1850s 23 / 943 1900s 11 / 1120 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1600s · 5 with this theme Show all eras

A Rose
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A Rose

by Sir Richard Fanshawe · English

Sir Richard Fanshawe portrait

12 June 1608 - June 1666 (~58)

The Blossome
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The Blossome

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

The Primrose
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The Primrose

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

To the Rose
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To the Rose

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

To the Virgins, to make much of Time
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To the Virgins, to make much of Time

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

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