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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“wealth” 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 0 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 90 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 0 / 59 1700s 1 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 5 / 685 1850s 6 / 944 1900s 4 / 1120 1950s 1 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Against a Rich Man Despising Povertie

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Against a Rich Man Despising Povertie

by Phineas Fletcher · English

8 April 1582 - 13 December 1650 (~68)

A Short Song of Congratulation

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A Short Song of Congratulation

by Samuel Johnson · English

18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784 (~75)

My father was a farmer

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My father was a farmer

by Robert Burns · English

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

I've No Sheep on the Mountain

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I've No Sheep on the Mountain

by Joanna Baillie · English

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851 (~89)

Poverty

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Poverty

by Henry David Thoreau · English

12 July 1817 - 6 May 1862 (~45)

Patty of the Vale

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Patty of the Vale

by John Clare · English

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

Written in London. September, 1802

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Written in London. September, 1802

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

When Poor in All but Hope and Love

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When Poor in All but Hope and Love

by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan · English

22 March 1808 - 15 June 1877 (~69)

Rest Only in the Grave

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Rest Only in the Grave

by James Clarence Mangan · English

1 May 1803 - 20 June 1849 (~46)

Lost

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Lost

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Enough

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Enough

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Beggar to Beggar Cried

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Beggar to Beggar Cried

by William Butler Yeats · English

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

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