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 Edmund Waller
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
83% affinity
Shared: james i, eton college
bio 79% · poems 86%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
82% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 77% · poems 87%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: restoration, power
bio 76% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 88%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 87%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 87%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 88%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 76% · poems 85%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: social, praise
bio 76% · poems 85%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 84%
William Walsh
6 October 1662–15 March 1708 (~46)
80% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 78% · poems 82%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 88%