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.
William Browne, of Tavistock
Listen to William Browne, of Tavistock's poems Compare with another poetPoets whose work rhymes most with William Browne, of Tavistock
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Richard Barnefield
29 June 1574–1627 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 79%
William Broome
30 April 1689–16 November 1745 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 78%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
77% affinity
Shared: inner temple
bio 77%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
77% affinity
bio 77%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 77%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 76%
T. E. Brown
5 May 1830–29 October 1897 (~67)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: friendship, social
bio 76%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 76%