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 Henry Newbolt
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
bio 81%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: barrister
bio 80%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
bio 78%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
78% affinity
bio 78%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 77%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
76% affinity
Shared: education
bio 76%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Shanks
11 June 1892–4 May 1953 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: britain
bio 76%