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 Arthur O'Shaughnessy
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
85% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 80% · poems 92%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
85% affinity
bio 79% · poems 92%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
85% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 79% · poems 92%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
85% affinity
bio 79% · poems 92%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
84% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 93%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
84% affinity
Shared: desire, imaginative
bio 76% · poems 93%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
84% affinity
Shared: social
bio 79% · poems 89%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
83% affinity
bio 76% · poems 92%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
83% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 91%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
83% affinity
Shared: love
bio 79% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 92%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
83% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 76% · poems 91%