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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“silence” 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 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 2 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 1 / 162 1800s 13 / 683 1850s 19 / 939 1900s 34 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

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

A Dirge

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A Dirge

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

Autumn Within

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Autumn Within

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Domestic Peace

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Domestic Peace

by Anne Brontë · English

17 January 1820 - 28 May 1849 (~29)

Holidays

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Holidays

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Mare Serenitatis

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Mare Serenitatis

by William Bell Scott · English

12 September 1811 - 22 November 1890 (~79)

Merops

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Merops

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Oh! breathe not his name

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Oh! breathe not his name

by Thomas Moore · English

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Silence

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Silence

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Speak of the North! A lonely moor

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Speak of the North! A lonely moor

by Charlotte Brontë · English

21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855 (~39)

The Broken Oar

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The Broken Oar

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The mountain wooded to the peak

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The mountain wooded to the peak

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

To the River Charles

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To the River Charles

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

When We Two Parted

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When We Two Parted

by Lord Byron · English

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

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