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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“garden” 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.

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 4 / 161 1800s 5 / 683 1850s 20 / 936 1900s 23 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

To a Lady

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To a Lady

by William Dunbar · English

c. 1460 - c. 1520 (~60)

There Is a Garden in Her Face

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There Is a Garden in Her Face

by Thomas Campion · English

12 February 1567 - 1 March 1620 (~53)

Loves Garden Grief

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Loves Garden Grief

by Robert Southwell · English

c. 1561 - 21 February 1595 (~34)

The Cherry

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The Cherry

by Richard Allison · English

c. 1570 - c. 1615 (~45)

A Poison Tree

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A Poison Tree

by William Blake · English

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

Envy

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Envy

by Mary Lamb · English

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

The Lily and the Rose

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The Lily and the Rose

by William Cowper · English

26 November 1731 - 25 April 1800 (~69)

The Garden of Love

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The Garden of Love

by William Blake · English

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

Captain Cook (To My Brother)

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Captain Cook (To My Brother)

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon · English

14 August 1802 - 15 October 1838 (~36)

I Remember, I Remember

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I Remember, I Remember

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

My Garden

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My Garden

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Come into the garden, Maud

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Come into the garden, Maud

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

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