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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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“light” + lights, twilight, enlightenment, moonlight across the centuries

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lights 7 poems twilight 15 poems enlightenment 4 poems moonlight 9 poems delight 14 poems flight 7 poems lightning 7 poems sunlight 3 poems

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 2 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 9 1550s 1 / 87 1600s 4 / 172 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 1 / 32 1750s 10 / 160 1800s 40 / 680 1850s 49 / 930 1900s 82 / 1109 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1600s · 4 with this theme Show all eras

Breake of Day
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Breake of Day

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

Come, sable night
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Come, sable night

by John Ward · English

John Ward portrait

8 September 1571 - 1638 (~67)

On His Blindness
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On His Blindness

by John Milton · English

John Milton portrait

9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674 (~66)

That Women Are but Mens Shaddowes
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That Women Are but Mens Shaddowes

by Ben Jonson · English

Ben Jonson portrait

c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637 (~65)

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