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- Bible10 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 10 Midnights · 5
- Romeo and Juliet3 songsFearless · 2 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- The Fates (Greek mythology)3 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 Red · 1
- A Wrinkle in Time2 songsMidnights · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland2 songsMidnights · 1 1989 · 1
- Antony and Cleopatra2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 Midnights · 1
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)2 songsMidnights · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Hamlet2 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Jane Eyre2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 Folklore · 1
- Macbeth2 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Peter Pan2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 Folklore · 1
- The Great Escape (1963)2 songsReputation · 1 Midnights · 1
- The Great Gatsby2 songsEvermore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- The Lady of Shalott2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 The Life of a Showgirl · 1
- The Odyssey2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 Reputation · 1
- The Scarlet Letter2 songsFearless · 2 1989 · 1
- 30 Rock1 song
- A Defence of Poetry (literary criticism)1 song
- A Red, Red Rose1 song
- A Tale of Two Cities1 song
- Ace of Base1 song
- All About Eve (1950)1 song
- All's Well That Ends Well1 song
- Antigone1 song
- Ariadne and Dionysus myth1 song
- Aristotle1 song
- Aurora Leigh1 song
- Aurora mythology1 song
- Banshee folklore1 song
- Barchester Towers1 song
- Because I could not stop for Death1 song
- Black dog folklore tradition1 song
- Bonnie and Clyde1 song
- Can't Help Falling in Love1 song
- Carrie1 song
- Cassandra myth1 song
- Cinderella1 song
- Clara Bow (silent-film 'It Girl' icon)1 song
- Cold, Cold Heart (Hank Williams, 1951)1 song
- Compassion1 song
- Crimson & Clover1 song
- Deck the Halls (traditional Christmas carol)1 song
- Dog days folklore tradition1 song
- Echo and Narcissus myth1 song
- Father Figure (George Michael song)1 song
- Field of Dreams (1989)1 song
- Fire and Ice1 song
- Frankenstein1 song
- Great Expectations1 song
- Heart of Glass1 song
- How the West Was Won (1962)1 song
- Ignis fatuus folklore tradition1 song
- In Flanders Fields1 song
- It (1927)1 song
- Just Kids1 song
- Keep Calm and Carry On1 song
- Keep Calm and Carry On (Second World War British morale slogan)1 song
- Kiss It Better1 song
- L'Albatros1 song
- La Morte Amoureuse1 song
- Lady Lazarus1 song
- Li'l Abner1 song
- Lingchi1 song
- Lost in Translation (2003)1 song
- Love's Labour's Lost1 song
- Lyrical Ballads1 song
- Maxim ('Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great')1 song
- Midas myth1 song
- Misery1 song
- Nicomachean Ethics1 song
- Odd Man Out (1947)1 song
- Odd Man Out (1947) score; William Bowery pen-name lineage1 song
- Ode to the West Wind1 song
- Of Mice and Men1 song
- Of Truth (essay)1 song
- One for the money, two for the show (traditional counting rhyme)1 song
- Ophelia (painting by Friedrich Heyser)1 song
- Ophelia (painting by John Everett Millais)1 song
- Orion and Scorpius myth1 song
- Practical Magic1 song
- Rags to riches (Horatio Alger tradition)1 song
- Road to Ruin (The Ramones album)1 song
- Samuel Johnson on London1 song
- Sleeping Beauty folklore tradition1 song
- Sonnets from the Portuguese1 song
- Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac / solo persona)1 song
- Stolen1 song
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening1 song
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics song)1 song
- Tales from Shakespeare1 song
- Tarot — The Fool1 song
- Tarot — The Moon1 song
- The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World1 song
- The Bad Seed1 song
- The Book of Proverbs (31:10)1 song
- The Fear1 song
- The Godfather (1972)1 song
- The Iliad1 song
- The Little Mermaid1 song
- The Longest Time1 song
- The Mourning Bride1 song
- The Raven1 song
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner1 song
- The Road Not Taken1 song
- The Scorpion and the Frog1 song
- The Secret Garden1 song
- The Spider and the Fly1 song
- The Tempest1 song
- The Winds of Fate1 song
- The Wizard of Oz — The Cowardly Lion1 song
- The Woman in White1 song
- There Is a Garden in Her Face1 song
- This Is Just To Say1 song
- To a Mouse1 song
- Ulysses and the Sirens1 song
- Virginia Woolf (biographical)1 song
- Water Lilies / Impressionism1 song
- White Lady folklore tradition1 song
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf1 song
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1 song
- Wild nights - Wild nights!1 song
- Works and Days1 song
- Wuthering Heights1 song
- You're So Vain1 song
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- Beowulf2 songsFolklore · 1 Midnights · 1
- A Christmas Carol1 song
- A Coney Island of the Mind1 song
- Because I could not stop for Death1 song
- Birches1 song
- Cassandra myth1 song
- Catilinarian Orations1 song
- Gasoline1 song
- Gilligan's Island Theme Song1 song
- Hamlet1 song
- Mending Wall1 song
- My Last Duchess1 song
- Native Son1 song
- Odd Man Out (1947)1 song
- On the Road1 song
- Peter Pan1 song
- Porphyria's Lover1 song
- Rashomon1 song
- Romeo and Juliet1 song
- Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands1 song
- Someone Great1 song
- The Ballad of Jed Clampett1 song
- The Charge of the Light Brigade1 song
- The Great Gatsby1 song
- The Odyssey1 song
- The Prelude1 song
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner1 song
- The Road Not Taken1 song
- Victorian-era poems with ABABCC rhyme scheme1 song
- We Are Seven1 song
- Yellow Rose of Texas1 song
Thematic echo
- Bible11 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 6 Folklore · 4
- Peter Pan5 songsFolklore · 2 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Hamlet4 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 2 Red (Taylor's Version) · 1
- Sense and Sensibility4 songsFolklore · 2 Speak Now · 1
- Sonnet 1164 songsRed (Taylor's Version) · 1 Midnights · 1
- The Odyssey4 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 Reputation · 1
- A Midsummer Night's Dream3 songsLover · 1 Red (Taylor's Version) · 1
- Rapunzel3 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 The Life of a Showgirl · 1
- Romeo and Juliet3 songsFearless · 2 The Life of a Showgirl · 1
- A Rose for Emily2 songsRed (Taylor's Version) · 1 Folklore · 1
- Beowulf2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 1989 · 1
- Black dog folklore tradition2 songs
- Cold, Cold Heart (Hank Williams, 1951)2 songsTaylor Swift · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- e.e. cummings: unconventional capitalisation2 songsEvermore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Echo and Narcissus myth2 songsSpeak Now · 1 Folklore · 1
- 2 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Frankenstein2 songs
- Jane Eyre2 songsFolklore · 1 1989 · 1
- Les Misérables2 songsMidnights · 1 Speak Now · 1
- Macbeth2 songs
- Mending Wall2 songsSpeak Now · 1 Evermore · 1
- Poetry2 songsRed (Taylor's Version) · 1 Midnights · 1
- Pretty Woman2 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 Midnights · 1
- Sonnet 732 songsMidnights · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening2 songsMidnights · 1 Evermore · 1
- The Blind Men and the Elephant2 songs
- The Raven2 songsEvermore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- The Road Not Taken2 songsMidnights · 1 Evermore · 1
- To His Coy Mistress2 songsFolklore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- White Lady folklore tradition2 songsFolklore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1
- Wuthering Heights2 songsFolklore · 1 Evermore · 1
- A Broken Appointment1 song
- A Defence of Poetry (literary criticism)1 song
- A Farewell to Arms1 song
- A Little Princess1 song
- A Star Is Born1 song
- A Tale of Two Cities1 song
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning1 song
- About Time (2013)1 song
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn1 song
- After Love1 song
- Afterwards1 song
- All About Eve (1950)1 song
- Annie Hall1 song
- Antigone1 song
- Antony and Cleopatra1 song
- Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and Ares myth1 song
- Ariadne and Dionysus myth1 song
- Aubrey-Maturin series1 song
- Auld Lang Syne1 song
- Banshee folklore1 song
- Barchester Towers1 song
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)1 song
- Because I could not stop for Death1 song
- Bible — 1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath)1 song
- Blowin' in the Wind1 song
- Bonnie and Clyde1 song
- Brooklyn (2015)1 song
- Cassandra (Florence + the Machine)1 song
- Cassandra myth1 song
- Charles Barkley Nike Commercial (1993)1 song
- Cinderella1 song
- Compassion1 song
- Dante and Beatrice1 song
- Desolation Row1 song
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night1 song
- Dog days folklore tradition1 song
- Dónal Óg (Grief of a Girl's Heart)1 song
- Dracula1 song
- Easy A (2010)1 song
- Edinburgh Review (essays attacking the Lake Poets)1 song
- Fire and Ice1 song
- Footloose (1984)1 song
- Forrest Gump1 song
- Game of Thrones1 song
- Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories1 song
- Goodfellas (1990)1 song
- Great Expectations1 song
- Handlyng Synne1 song
- Heart of Darkness1 song
- Heart of Glass1 song
- Heart! We will forget him!1 song
- Heavy1 song
- Her Kind1 song
- Howl1 song
- I held a Jewel in my fingers1 song
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud1 song
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry1 song
- Ignis fatuus folklore tradition1 song
- In Flanders Fields1 song
- In Just – Spring1 song
- It (1927)1 song
- Keep Calm and Carry On (Second World War British morale slogan)1 song
- Knives Out (2019)1 song
- Konjaku Monogatari1 song
- L'Albatros1 song
- La Llorona (Mexican folklore tradition)1 song
- La Morte Amoureuse1 song
- Lady Chatterley's Lover1 song
- Lady Lazarus1 song
- Lady Macbeth — the blood stain1 song
- Leisure1 song
- Let the Right One In1 song
- Let Us Live and Love (5)1 song
- Lyrical Ballads1 song
- Malleus Maleficarum1 song
- Maxim ('Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great')1 song
- Metamorphoses1 song
- Midas myth1 song
- Not Waving but Drowning1 song
- Obituary of Emily Dickinson (1886)1 song
- Odd Man Out (1947)1 song
- Ode to the West Wind1 song
- On Nature (the river fragment)1 song
- One Art1 song
- Ophelia (painting by John Everett Millais)1 song
- Oresteia1 song
- Orion and Scorpius myth1 song
- Ozymandias1 song
- Paradise Lost1 song
- Perseus and Medusa1 song
- Poem #141 song
- Porphyria's Lover1 song
- Possession1 song
- Rags to riches (Horatio Alger tradition)1 song
- Rashomon1 song
- Samuel Johnson on London1 song
- Seneca's Agamemnon1 song
- She Walks in Beauty1 song
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight1 song
- Sleeping Beauty folklore tradition1 song
- Smiling Faces Sometimes1 song
- Snow White (fairy tale)1 song
- Some Enchanted Evening1 song
- Song of Myself1 song
- Sonnet 121 song
- Sonnet 1301 song
- Sonnet 291 song
- Sonnet 601 song
- Sonnets from the Portuguese1 song
- Stolen1 song
- Summa Theologica1 song
- Summer Nights (Grease)1 song
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics song)1 song
- Sweet Home Alabama (2002)1 song
- T.S. Eliot — "the purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"1 song
- The Aeneid1 song
- The Bad Seed1 song
- The Bells1 song
- The Blind Man and The Elephant1 song
- The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats1 song
- The Crucible1 song
- The Divine Comedy1 song
- The Family Man (2000)1 song
- The Fates (Greek mythology)1 song
- The Freshman (1990)1 song
- The Gallic Wars1 song
- The Godfather (1972)1 song
- The Great Gatsby1 song
- The House of Fame1 song
- The Iliad1 song
- The Lady of Shalott1 song
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree1 song
- The Last of the Mohicans1 song
- The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)1 song
- The Legend of Rose Latulipe1 song
- The Little Mermaid1 song
- The Longest Time1 song
- The Miller's Tale1 song
- The Most Dangerous Game1 song
- The Mourning Bride1 song
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love1 song
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)1 song
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner1 song
- The Scarlet Letter1 song
- The Scorpion and the Frog1 song
- The Secret Garden1 song
- The Serenity Prayer1 song
- The Sun Also Rises1 song
- The Twelve Caesars1 song
- The Waking1 song
- The Woman in White1 song
- The Yellow Wallpaper1 song
- Through the Looking-Glass1 song
- To Kill a Mockingbird1 song
- Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines)1 song
- Tristan and Isolde1 song
- Troilus and Cressida1 song
- Virginia Woolf (biographical)1 song
- Water Lilies / Impressionism1 song
- We Wear the Mask1 song
- West Side Story1 song
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)1 song
- When I Was One-and-Twenty1 song
- Wicked1 song
- Wild nights - Wild nights!1 song
- Winter: My Secret1 song
- Writing as pain / pouring yourself into work1 song
- You Can't Go Home Again1 song