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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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“presence” 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 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 0 / 162 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 18 / 939 1900s 26 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 18 with this theme Show all eras

At Half past Three, a single Bird

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At Half past Three, a single Bird

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Beautiful Dreamer

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Beautiful Dreamer

by Stephen Collins Foster · English

4 July 1826 - 13 January 1864 (~38)

Fallen Majesty

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Fallen Majesty

by William Butler Yeats · English

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

Grief dies like joy

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Grief dies like joy

by Henry Timrod · English

8 December 1828 - 7 October 1867 (~39)

I hide myself within my flower

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I hide myself within my flower

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

In lands I never saw

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In lands I never saw

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Now

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Now

by Violet Fane · English

24 February 1843 - 13 October 1905 (~62)

Numen Lumen

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Numen Lumen

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Punctuality

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Punctuality

by Lewis Carroll · English

27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898 (~66)

Revisited

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Revisited

by Madison Julius Cawein · English

23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914 (~49)

Rima XXI

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Rima XXI

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Spanish

1836 - 1870 (~34)

She went as quiet as the dew

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She went as quiet as the dew

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Azalea

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The Azalea

by Coventry Patmore · English

23 July 1823 - 26 November 1896 (~73)

The Garden of Dreams

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The Garden of Dreams

by Bliss Carman · English

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

The Humming-Bird

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The Humming-Bird

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Phantom

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The Phantom

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

To-Day

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To-Day

by John Boyle O'Reilly · English

28 June 1844 - 10 August 1890 (~46)

Wild nights—Wild nights!

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Wild nights—Wild nights!

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

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