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 Francis Thompson
James Thomson
23 November 1834–3 June 1882 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 80%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 79%
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
79% affinity
Shared: catholic, religious
bio 79%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: catholic, grace
bio 78%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: john donne, religious, grace
bio 78%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78%
William Thom
c. December 1798–29 February 1848 (~50)
77% affinity
bio 77%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: london, imagination
bio 77%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
bio 76%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
bio 76%