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 Ben Jonson
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 77% · poems 84%
William Shakespeare
c. 23 April 1564–23 April 1616 (~52)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 77% · poems 84%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: roman catholicism, london
bio 73% · poems 88%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 86%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
79% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 70% · poems 91%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 76% · poems 83%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: court
bio 71% · poems 87%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 82%
Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 78%
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 85%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 70% · poems 87%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 69% · poems 88%