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 Southey
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
82% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: lake district, samuel taylor coleridge
bio 77% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: pantisocracy
bio 77% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 87%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 89%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge, romanticism
bio 75% · poems 86%
Edmund William Gosse
21 September 1849–16 May 1928 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76% · poems 84%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: lake district, samuel taylor coleridge, romanticism
bio 73% · poems 88%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 75% · poems 85%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%