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 Henry Scott Holland
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 82%
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Thomas Edwards Hankinson
19 June 1805–6 October 1843 (~38)
75% affinity
Shared: church, religious
bio 75%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: oxford, church
bio 75%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: church, religious
bio 74%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
72% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
72% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72%
Robert Stephen Hawker
3 December 1803–15 August 1875 (~72)
72% affinity
Shared: church, faith
bio 72%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
72% affinity
Shared: church, religious
bio 72%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
72% affinity
Shared: social, religious
bio 72%