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 Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
86% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 81% · poems 93%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
86% affinity
Shared: first world war, robert graves
bio 84% · poems 89%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, soldier
bio 78% · poems 87%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 75% · poems 85%
Richard Aldington
8 July 1892–27 July 1962 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: soldiers, death
bio 71% · poems 90%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: death
bio 73% · poems 86%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
79% affinity
Shared: first world war, soldier
bio 77% · poems 82%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: first world war, death
bio 74% · poems 84%
Owen Seaman
18 September 1861–2 February 1936 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 72% · poems 86%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: soldier
bio 74% · poems 83%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 74% · poems 83%