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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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“body” across the centuries

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 2 / 29 BCE 2 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 2 / 90 1600s 8 / 176 1650s 2 / 58 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 4 / 163 1800s 13 / 684 1850s 13 / 942 1900s 68 / 1120 1950s 2 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 13 with this theme Show all eras

A Song of Age

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A Song of Age

by Aubrey Thomas de Vere · English

10 January 1814 - 20 January 1902 (~88)

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art

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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art

by John Keats · English

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

Genuine Ethereality

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Genuine Ethereality

by James Clarence Mangan · English

1 May 1803 - 20 June 1849 (~46)

Jealousy

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Jealousy

by Charles Tennyson Turner · English

4 July 1808 - 25 April 1879 (~71)

Phantom

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Phantom

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

Psyche

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Psyche

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

Suspiria

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Suspiria

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Miller’s Daughter

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The Miller’s Daughter

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Spectre Pig

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The Spectre Pig

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · English

29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894 (~85)

To a Very Old Woman

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To a Very Old Woman

by William Makepeace Thackeray · English

18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863 (~52)

To Mary

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To Mary

by Charles Wolfe · English

14 December 1791 - 21 February 1823 (~32)

When Stretch'd On One's Bed

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When Stretch'd On One's Bed

by Jane Austen · English

16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817 (~42)

Youth and Age

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Youth and Age

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

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