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 Charles Sorley
Siegfried Sassoon
8 September 1886–1 September 1967 (~81)
86% affinity
Shared: first world war, robert graves
bio 84% · poems 89%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
85% affinity
Shared: first world war, world
bio 82% · poems 89%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
84% affinity
Shared: first world war, patriotic
bio 81% · poems 88%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
84% affinity
Shared: letters
bio 79% · poems 90%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
84% affinity
Shared: first world war, suffolk regiment, dead
bio 81% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
83% affinity
Shared: first world war, world
bio 77% · poems 91%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
83% affinity
Shared: first world war, dead
bio 79% · poems 87%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 90%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
82% affinity
bio 78% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 89%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
81% affinity
bio 73% · poems 91%