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 Patrick Reginald Chalmers
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
81% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 74% · poems 89%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 71% · poems 91%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: rural, country
bio 71% · poems 90%
John Clare
13 July 1793–20 May 1864 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: rural, social
bio 72% · poems 88%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 88%
Charles Cotton
28 April 1630–16 February 1687 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 85%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: landscape, world
bio 69% · poems 89%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 67% · poems 92%
Charles Murray
27 September 1864–12 April 1941 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 70% · poems 88%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 85%