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 William Bourdillon
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: traditions
bio 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: french
bio 81%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford, loss
bio 81%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 81%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: french, loss
bio 80%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
79% affinity
bio 79%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
79% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 79%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: loss
bio 79%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: light, oxford
bio 79%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 79%