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 Andrew Marvell
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
84% affinity
Shared: love, world, life
bio 77% · poems 92%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
83% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 76% · poems 91%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 91%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: power, love
bio 75% · poems 89%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
81% affinity
Shared: philosophical, love
bio 74% · poems 90%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: religious, love
bio 74% · poems 89%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 74% · poems 89%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
81% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 75% · poems 87%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 72% · poems 91%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
81% affinity
Shared: cromwell, power
bio 76% · poems 86%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: trinity college, love, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: power, philosophical
bio 74% · poems 89%