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 George Gascoigne
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
81% affinity
bio 76% · poems 87%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 82%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: trinity college cambridge
bio 74% · poems 83%
Edmund William Gosse
21 September 1849–16 May 1928 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: trinity college cambridge
bio 74% · poems 82%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 82%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 72% · poems 83%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: trinity college cambridge
bio 73% · poems 81%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 82%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 84%
Robert Greene
c. 11 July 1558–3 September 1592 (~34)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76%
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
76% affinity
Shared: desire, beauty
bio 74% · poems 79%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 84%