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 Owen Seaman
Siegfried Sassoon
8 September 1886–1 September 1967 (~81)
78% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 72% · poems 86%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
78% affinity
Shared: first world war, soldier
bio 72% · poems 85%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 82%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 83%
J. C. Squire
2 April 1884–20 December 1958 (~74)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 79%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 79%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 79%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 83%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
75% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 71% · poems 80%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 80%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 81%