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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“bird” + bluebird, blackbird across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
bluebird 1 poem blackbird 4 poems birds 49 poems birdsong 1 poem hummingbird 1 poem

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced any of these terms. Click an era to focus the poem list below.

pre-1500 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 3 / 162 1800s 21 / 683 1850s 32 / 939 1900s 21 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Of all the birds
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Of all the birds

by George Gascoigne · English

George Gascoigne portrait

c. 1539 - 7 October 1577 (~38)

The Banks O' Doon
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The Banks O' Doon

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

To the Lark
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To the Lark

by Anna Lætitia Barbauld · English

Anna Lætitia Barbauld portrait

20 June 1743 - 9 March 1825 (~82)

To a Nightingale
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To a Nightingale

by Charlotte Smith · English

Charlotte Smith portrait

4 May 1749 - 28 October 1806 (~57)

Ode to a Nightingale
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Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats · English

John Keats portrait

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

Proud Maisie
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Proud Maisie

by Sir Walter Scott · English

Sir Walter Scott portrait

15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832 (~61)

The Green Linnet
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The Green Linnet

by William Wordsworth · English

William Wordsworth portrait

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

The Redbreast
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The Redbreast

by Charlotte Richardson · English

Charlotte Richardson portrait

5 March 1775 - 26 September 1825 (~50)

Beauty and Song
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Beauty and Song

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

False Poets and True
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False Poets and True

by Thomas Hood · English

Thomas Hood portrait

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

The Darkling Thrush
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The Darkling Thrush

by Thomas Hardy · English

Thomas Hardy portrait

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

A Birthday
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A Birthday

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

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