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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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— none — world life love death beauty nature self social beloved divine memory desire spiritual heart grief power romantic suffering woman light soul loss dead body pain wind philosophical voice music landscape hope religious sorrow spring children flowers faith bird water rose mortality silence lover domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth women dream flower irish garden mind rain summer lovers

“wind” + windhover, windmill, winds across the centuries

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windhover 1 poem windmill 2 poems winds 10 poems window 11 poems windows 4 poems windmills 1 poem windsor 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 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 2 / 162 1800s 17 / 683 1850s 36 / 939 1900s 56 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 2 with this theme Show all eras

Love's Secret
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Love's Secret

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

O tell na me o' wind and rain
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O tell na me o' wind and rain

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

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