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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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“bird” across the centuries

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birds 49 poems blackbird 4 poems birdsong 1 poem bluebird 1 poem hummingbird 1 poem

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 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 3 / 162 1800s 20 / 683 1850s 32 / 939 1900s 19 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1750s · 3 with this theme Show all eras

The Banks O' Doon
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The Banks O' Doon

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

To a Nightingale
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To a Nightingale

by Charlotte Smith · English

Charlotte Smith portrait

4 May 1749 - 28 October 1806 (~57)

To the Lark
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To the Lark

by Anna Lætitia Barbauld · English

Anna Lætitia Barbauld portrait

20 June 1743 - 9 March 1825 (~82)

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