Theme Timeline

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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“presence” across the centuries

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 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 0 / 162 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 18 / 939 1900s 26 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

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

My Picture
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My Picture

by Abraham Cowley · English

Abraham Cowley portrait

1618 - 28 July 1667 (~49)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

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