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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Walter Savage Landor

Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
19 poems analysed
83% affinity
bio 77% · poems 91%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
51 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge
bio 74% · poems 91%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: trinity college
bio 73% · poems 90%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
10 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 88%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
19 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 73% · poems 90%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
69 poems analysed
80% affinity
bio 71% · poems 91%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: imagination, love
bio 71% · poems 92%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
22 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: imagination, love
bio 73% · poems 90%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
5 poems analysed
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 91%
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838 (~36)
3 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 74% · poems 87%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
4 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 88%
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