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 George Crabbe
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 73% · poems 85%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: social, self
bio 74% · poems 84%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 72% · poems 84%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 84%
John Clare
13 July 1793–20 May 1864 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 82%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 86%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
77% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 72% · poems 83%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 79%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: world, self
bio 70% · poems 85%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
76% affinity
Shared: romanticism, social
bio 71% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 70% · poems 84%