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 Watson
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
84% affinity
Shared: poet laureate
bio 83% · poems 84%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
83% affinity
bio 79% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 78% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 78% · poems 86%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
81% affinity
bio 77% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
bio 76% · poems 87%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
81% affinity
bio 79% · poems 83%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 85%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 85%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 84%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 79% · poems 82%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 87%