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 Symons
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
85% affinity
Shared: french
bio 79% · poems 92%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
84% affinity
Shared: rhymers' club, french
bio 78% · poems 92%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 91%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 75% · poems 91%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
82% affinity
Shared: london, world
bio 75% · poems 91%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
82% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 91%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 90%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 90%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: love
bio 75% · poems 90%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
bio 76% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 74% · poems 90%