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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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“mind” + reminder across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
reminder 1 poem unmindful 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 1 / 28 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 6 / 162 1800s 17 / 683 1850s 10 / 939 1900s 15 / 1115 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1600s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

On Tea
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On Tea

by Edmund Waller · English

Edmund Waller portrait

3 March 1606 - 21 October 1687 (~81)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by Ben Jonson · English

Ben Jonson portrait

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

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