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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“music” 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 / 29 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 1 / 10 1550s 8 / 90 1600s 16 / 176 1650s 1 / 58 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 18 / 684 1850s 16 / 941 1900s 38 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 16 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)

A Sleepless Night

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A Sleepless Night

by Alfred Austin · English

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

Another Spring

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Another Spring

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

In the Oratory

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In the Oratory

by Arthur Symons · English

28 February 1865 - 22 January 1945 (~80)

Loyalty

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Loyalty

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Sorrowful Music

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Sorrowful Music

by Bayard Taylor · English

11 January 1825 - 19 December 1878 (~53)

Summer for thee grant I may be

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Summer for thee grant I may be

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Key-Board

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The Key-Board

by William Watson · English

2 August 1858 - 11 August 1935 (~77)

The Magic Land

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The Magic Land

by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton · English

8 November 1831 - 24 November 1891 (~60)

The Mountain Tomb

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The Mountain Tomb

by William Butler Yeats · English

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

The Princess

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The Princess

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · Norwegian

8 December 1832 - 26 April 1910 (~78)

The Self-Unseeing

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The Self-Unseeing

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

The Wedding of Shon MacLean

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The Wedding of Shon MacLean

by Robert Williams Buchanan · English

18 August 1841 - 10 June 1901 (~60)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

by Katharine Tynan Hinkson · English

23 January 1861 - 2 April 1931 (~70)

To a Tune

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To a Tune

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

To the Birds

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To the Birds

by William Philpot · English

16 April 1823 - 16 April 1889 (~66)

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