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 William Cowper
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 81% · poems 81%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 76% · poems 87%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 83%
Charles Cotton
28 April 1630–16 February 1687 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 81%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 87%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 83%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: domestic, social
bio 74% · poems 81%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, life, world
bio 72% · poems 83%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: beauty, life
bio 72% · poems 82%