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 Thomas Babington Macaulay
Charles Mackay
27 March 1814–24 December 1889 (~75)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
74% affinity
Shared: history
bio 74%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
73% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
73% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73%
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
1730–13 February 1809 (~79)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Gerald Massey
29 May 1828–29 October 1907 (~79)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%