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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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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 1600s · 5 with this theme Show all eras

The Heart Breaking
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The Heart Breaking

by Abraham Cowley · English

Abraham Cowley portrait

1618 - 28 July 1667 (~49)

The Noble Spanish Soldier
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The Noble Spanish Soldier

by Thomas Dekker · English

Thomas Dekker portrait

c. 1572 - 25 August 1641 (~69)

The Triple Foole
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The Triple Foole

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

The Wounded Heart
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The Wounded Heart

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

Weep no more
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Weep no more

by John Fletcher · English

John Fletcher portrait

20 December 1579 - 29 August 1625 (~46)

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