| 100% | CANTATA | 7 | Bach wrote one about coffee |
| 53% | TALE | 4 | Dickens wrote one about two cities |
| 53% | ODE | 3 | Keats wrote one about an urn |
| 53% | ODE | 3 | Neruda wrote one about the sea |
| 53% | ORATORIO | 8 | Paul McCartney wrote one about Liverpool |
| 53% | ODE | 3 | Wordsworth wrote one about a cuckoo |
| 48% | AESOP | 5 | One writing about "hare loss"? |
| 46% | REPORT | 6 | Students might write one of these about a book |
| 44% | RHAPSODY | 8 | George Gershwin wrote about one in Blue |
| 44% | LAWS | 4 | Ones written by Newton about motion, or Asimov about robotics |
| 44% | SALESMAN | 8 | Arthur Miller wrote about the Death of one |
| 44% | FORT | 4 | "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written about one |
| 43% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote about An Ideal one in 1895 |
| 43% | HUSBAND | 7 | Oscar Wilde wrote a play about An Ideal one |
| 42% | UNICORN | 7 | Peter S. Beagle wrote a novel about the last one |
| 42% | TATTOO | 6 | Stieg Larsson wrote about a Girl with a Dragon one |
| 41% | SURAT | 5 | Tolstoy wrote about the coffee house in this location in 1893 |
| 38% | VIOL | 4 | Bach wrote for it |
| 37% | PARTITAS | 8 | Bach wrote three for violin |
| 37% | BASSVIOL | 8 | Bach wrote sonatas for it |
| 37% | ICED | 4 | One way to serve coffee |
| 36% | OPERA | 5 | Beethoven wrote one |
| 36% | HAT | 3 | Oliver Sacks wrote (in 1985) about Dr. P who apparently mistook his wife for one of these |
| 36% | CANTATAS | 8 | Bach wrote over 200 of these |
| 36% | VIOL | 4 | Instrument Bach wrote for |
| 36% | PHLEVEL | 7 | About 5, for coffee |
| 35% | SAGA | 4 | John Galsworthy wrote one |
| 35% | OBOE | 4 | Bach wrote a solo concerto for it |
| 35% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Wrote one of the Great American Novels |
| 35% | SIGN | 4 | Write one's name on a document |