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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“flowers” + flow across the centuries

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 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 6 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 5 / 161 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 25 / 938 1900s 27 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 16 with this theme Show all eras

A Spring Morning

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A Spring Morning

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

Birthday Verses

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Birthday Verses

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Field Asters

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Field Asters

by Herman Melville · English

1 August 1819 - 28 September 1891 (~72)

Flowers

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Flowers

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

May

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May

by Edward Hovell-Thurlow · English

10 June 1781 - 4 June 1829 (~48)

Reproof of Thanks

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Reproof of Thanks

by Walter Savage Landor · English

30 January 1775 - 17 September 1864 (~89)

Second Love

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Second Love

by William Thom · English

c. December 1798 - 29 February 1848 (~50)

The Dial of Flowers

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The Dial of Flowers

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans · English

25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835 (~42)

The Forest Reverie

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The Forest Reverie

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

The Parting

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The Parting

by Anne Brontë · English

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

The Reaper and the Flowers

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The Reaper and the Flowers

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Stream of Life

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The Stream of Life

by Arthur Hugh Clough · English

1 January 1819 - 13 November 1861 (~42)

To Ellen at the South

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To Ellen at the South

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Who fancied what a pretty sight

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Who fancied what a pretty sight

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

You'll love Me yet

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You'll love Me yet

by Robert Browning · English

7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889 (~77)

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