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 Robert Herrick
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
83% affinity
Shared: religious, church, prayer
bio 78% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
83% affinity
bio 77% · poems 89%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
82% affinity
Shared: london, life, world
bio 76% · poems 89%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 74% · poems 89%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
81% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 74% · poems 88%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 90%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: london, life
bio 73% · poems 90%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
80% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 71% · poems 90%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: ben jonson, social
bio 73% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: london, life
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 71% · poems 89%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 69% · poems 91%