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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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 26 / 938 1900s 27 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 26 with this theme Show all eras

A Discord

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A Discord

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

Aftermath

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Aftermath

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Another Spring

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Another Spring

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Before Sunset

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Before Sunset

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

Consider the Lilies of the Field

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Consider the Lilies of the Field

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Do not forget me!

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Do not forget me!

by Violet Fane · English

24 February 1843 - 13 October 1905 (~62)

Frost To-Night

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Frost To-Night

by Edith M. Thomas · English

12 August 1854 - 13 September 1925 (~71)

Golden Glories

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Golden Glories

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Gone Forever

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Gone Forever

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Life and Death

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Life and Death

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Lydia

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Lydia

by Lizette Woodworth Reese · English

9 January 1856 - 17 December 1935 (~79)

Nature's Changes

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Nature's Changes

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Pallor

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Pallor

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

Passing and Glassing

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Passing and Glassing

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Patience of Hope

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Patience of Hope

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Rain on a Grave

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Rain on a Grave

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Rima LIII

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Rima LIII

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Spanish

1836 - 1870 (~34)

The Bourne

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The Bourne

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

The Cypress

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The Cypress

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

The House That Was

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The House That Was

by Laurence Binyon · English

10 August 1869 - 10 March 1943 (~74)

The Two Sowers

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The Two Sowers

by Alexander Anderson · English

30 April 1845 - 11 July 1909 (~64)

The Widow

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The Widow

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

Torrents

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Torrents

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

Two Worlds

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Two Worlds

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Violets at Home

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Violets at Home

by Edward James Mortimer Collins · English

29 June 1827 - 28 July 1876 (~49)

Whose are the little beds

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Whose are the little beds

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

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