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.
Poets whose work rhymes most with Thomas, Lord Vaux by life & context
Thomas Vautor
c. 1592–1619 (~27)
83% affinity
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
80% affinity
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: life
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: henry viii
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: court
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: life, philosophical
Fulke Greville
3 October 1554–30 September 1628 (~74)
77% affinity
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
76% affinity
Shared: death, life
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: life
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
76% affinity
Shared: death, life
Richard Tottel
c. 1528–2 July 1593 (~65)
76% affinity
Shared: court
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
74% affinity
Shared: death, life