Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Or place two poets side by side to compare lives, landscapes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
Strongest mutual affinities
Poet pairs whose collected work sits unusually close in critique-space.
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
96%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
96%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
96%
Anne Brontë
17 January 1820–28 May 1849 (~29)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
95%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
95%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
94%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
94%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
94%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
94%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
Christina Rossetti
5 December 1830–29 December 1894 (~64)
94%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
94%
Dorothy Wordsworth
25 December 1771–25 January 1855 (~84)
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
93%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
93%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
93%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
