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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— none — world life love death beauty nature self social beloved divine memory desire spiritual heart grief power romantic suffering woman light soul loss dead body pain wind philosophical voice music landscape hope religious sorrow spring children flowers faith bird water rose mortality silence lover domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth women dream flower irish garden mind rain summer lovers

“wind” + windsor, windmills, windhover, windmill, window, winds across the centuries

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 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 2 / 162 1800s 20 / 683 1850s 38 / 939 1900s 61 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

The Wind and the Rain

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The Wind and the Rain

by William Shakespeare · English

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

To Amarantha: That She Would Dishevell Her Haire

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To Amarantha: That She Would Dishevell Her Haire

by Richard Lovelace · English

1617 - 1657 (~40)

The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest

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The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest

by Sir William Davenant · English

c. February 1606 - 7 April 1668 (~62)

Love's Secret

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Love's Secret

by William Blake · English

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

O tell na me o' wind and rain

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O tell na me o' wind and rain

by Robert Burns · English

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

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A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

by Allan Cunningham · English

7 December 1784 - 30 October 1842 (~58)

Winter

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Winter

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

The Snow-Storm

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The Snow-Storm

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

The Wind Over the Chimney

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The Wind Over the Chimney

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Windmill

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The Windmill

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

My Cathedral

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My Cathedral

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Voice

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The Voice

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

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