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 A. A. Milne
Lewis Carroll
27 January 1832–14 January 1898 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 68% · poems 88%
Edward Lear
12 May 1812–29 January 1888 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 68% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
75% affinity
Shared: childhood, world, self
bio 66% · poems 86%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
74% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 68% · poems 83%
Eugene Field
2 September 1850–4 November 1895 (~45)
74% affinity
Shared: childhood, social
bio 64% · poems 87%
Richard Monckton Milnes
19 June 1809–11 August 1885 (~76)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 68% · poems 80%
William Canton
27 October 1845–2 May 1926 (~81)
74% affinity
Shared: childhood, world
bio 68% · poems 81%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
74% affinity
bio 67% · poems 81%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
73% affinity
Shared: childhood, london
bio 65% · poems 84%
Strickland Gillilan
21 September 1869–25 April 1954 (~85)
73% affinity
bio 66% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63% · poems 87%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
73% affinity
Shared: trinity college
bio 64% · poems 84%