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 William Allingham
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 76%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: dante gabriel rossetti
bio 75%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
74% affinity
Shared: social, landscape
bio 74%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
74% affinity
bio 74%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
74% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74%
James Ballantine
11 June 1806–18 December 1877 (~71)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
73% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 73%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 73%
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73%
Sir Samuel Ferguson
10 March 1810–9 August 1886 (~76)
73% affinity
Shared: great famine, irish
bio 73%
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
10 January 1814–20 January 1902 (~88)
73% affinity
Shared: great famine, irish
bio 73%