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 Richard Barnefield
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: oxford, pastoral
bio 79%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: history
bio 78%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
William Barley
c. 1565–1614 (~49)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Thomas Randolph
15 June 1605–March 1635 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 75%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 75%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
75% affinity
bio 75%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: desire, praise
bio 75%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
75% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 75%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
74% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 74%