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 Stephen Hawes
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Thomas Hoccleve
c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)
78% affinity
Shared: medieval
bio 78%
Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1343–25 October 1400 (~57)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Robert Stephen Hawker
3 December 1803–15 August 1875 (~72)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: medieval
bio 76%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
75% affinity
Shared: education, court
bio 75%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: court
bio 75%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
75% affinity
bio 75%