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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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“love” + lovers, lover, loving, loved, loves across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
lovers 52 poems lover 62 poems loving 1 poem loved 6 poems loves 7 poems beloved 295 poems clover 2 poems lovest 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 8 / 28 BCE 6 / 12 1500s 4 / 9 1550s 42 / 87 1600s 99 / 172 1650s 36 / 57 1700s 11 / 32 1750s 59 / 160 1800s 163 / 680 1850s 219 / 930 1900s 252 / 1109 1950s 2 / 15

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Come, Come, Whoever You Are
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Come, Come, Whoever You Are

by Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī · Persian

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī portrait

30 September 1207 - 17 December 1273 (~66)

Tanto gentile, e tanto onesta pare
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Tanto gentile, e tanto onesta pare

by Dante Alighieri · Italian

Dante Alighieri portrait

c. May 1265 - 14 September 1321 (~56)

Merciles Beaute
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Merciles Beaute

by Geoffrey Chaucer · Middle English

Geoffrey Chaucer portrait

c. 1343 - 25 October 1400 (~57)

Canzoniere 61
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Canzoniere 61

by Francesco Petrarca · Italian

Francesco Petrarca portrait

1304 - 19 July 1374 (~70)

Praise of Women
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Praise of Women

by Robert Mannyng of Brunne · English

Robert Mannyng of Brunne portrait

1288 - c. 1338 (~50)

Piers the Plowman
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Piers the Plowman

by William Langland · English

William Langland portrait

c. 1332 - c. 1400 (~68)

Odi et amo
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Odi et amo

by Gaius Valerius Catullus · Latin

Gaius Valerius Catullus portrait

c. 84 BC - c. 54 BC (~30)

Laodamia's Lament
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Laodamia's Lament

by Publius Ovidius Naso · Latin

Publius Ovidius Naso portrait

20 March 43 BC - c. 17 (~60)

Ode IV.1
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Ode IV.1

by Quintus Horatius Flaccus · Latin

Quintus Horatius Flaccus portrait

8 December 65 BC - 27 November 8 BC (~38)

Hymn to Aphrodite
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Hymn to Aphrodite

by Sappho · Greek

Sappho portrait

c. 610 BC - c. 570 BC (~40)

phainetai moi
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phainetai moi

by Sappho · Greek

Sappho portrait

c. 610 BC - c. 570 BC (~40)

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