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 Thomas Chatterton
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: self, life
bio 77% · poems 87%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
81% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 74% · poems 89%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: social, self
bio 75% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: social, imagination
bio 74% · poems 89%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
81% affinity
Shared: london, imagination
bio 75% · poems 88%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 74% · poems 87%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 74% · poems 87%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: culture, beauty
bio 79% · poems 80%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 86%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: romanticism
bio 72% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: self, life
bio 72% · poems 89%