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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 dead loss body pain wind philosophical voice music landscape hope religious sorrow spring flowers children faith bird water rose mortality silence lover domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth women dream flower irish garden mind rain summer lovers

“lover” across the centuries

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love 896 poems lovers 52 poems clover 2 poems

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 1 / 10 1550s 6 / 89 1600s 14 / 176 1650s 4 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 8 / 684 1850s 15 / 939 1900s 14 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

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

Dream of Soft Delight
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Dream of Soft Delight

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

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12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

If Doughty Deeds
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If Doughty Deeds

by Robert Cunninghame-Graham · English

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1735 - 11 December 1797 (~62)

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