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 Francis Davison by life & context
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
83% affinity
Shared: grace
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
82% affinity
David Melvill
c. 1544–1614 (~70)
81% affinity
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford, loss
Thomas Campion
12 February 1567–1 March 1620 (~53)
81% affinity
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Michaell Cavendish
c. 1565–c. 5 July 1628 (~63)
80% affinity
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: loss
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Thomas Greaves
c. 1575–c. 1620 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: elizabethan era
Thomas Godfrey
4 December 1736–3 August 1763 (~27)
78% affinity
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
78% affinity