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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“rose” + primrose, rosebud across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
primrose 2 poems rosebud 2 poems roses 22 poems rosemary 2 poems primroses 1 poem montrose 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 1 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 7 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 8 / 162 1800s 6 / 683 1850s 25 / 939 1900s 24 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

The Prais of Aige
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The Prais of Aige

by Robert Henryson · English

Robert Henryson portrait

c. 1425 - c. 1500 (~75)

O Romeo, Romeo!
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O Romeo, Romeo!

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

To His Forsaken Mistress
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To His Forsaken Mistress

by Sir Robert Ayton · English

Sir Robert Ayton portrait

1570 - 25 February 1638 (~68)

Virtue
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Virtue

by George Herbert · English

George Herbert portrait

3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633 (~40)

Go, Lovely Rose
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Go, Lovely Rose

by Edmund Waller · English

Edmund Waller portrait

3 March 1606 - 21 October 1687 (~81)

To the Rose
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To the Rose

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

What is beauty
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What is beauty

by Thomas Greaves · English

Thomas Greaves portrait

c. 1575 - c. 1620 (~45)

A Rose
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A Rose

by Sir Richard Fanshawe · English

Sir Richard Fanshawe portrait

12 June 1608 - June 1666 (~58)

The Rosebud
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The Rosebud

by William Broome · English

William Broome portrait

30 April 1689 - 16 November 1745 (~56)

A Red, Red Rose
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A Red, Red Rose

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

Envy
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Envy

by Mary Lamb · English

Mary Lamb portrait

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

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