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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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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 1750s · 5 with this theme Show all eras

Envy
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Envy

by Mary Lamb · English

Mary Lamb portrait

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

My Pretty Rose Tree
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My Pretty Rose Tree

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

The Wild Honey Suckle
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The Wild Honey Suckle

by Philip Freneau · English

Philip Freneau portrait

2 January 1752 - 18 December 1832 (~80)

Thou whom chance may hither lead
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Thou whom chance may hither lead

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

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