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)
83% affinity
Shared: love
bio 79% · poems 88%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 88%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: social, desire, beloved
bio 76% · poems 85%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 75% · poems 86%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 77% · poems 83%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 75% · poems 85%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 77% · poems 82%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: rural, beauty
bio 74% · poems 85%
Richard Barnefield
29 June 1574–1627 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 79%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 73% · poems 85%
Thomas Parnell
11 September 1679–24 October 1718 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 72% · poems 86%