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 Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: power, world, love
bio 73% · poems 88%
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
76% affinity
Shared: elizabethan drama, play, power
bio 74% · poems 79%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: world, love, life
bio 69% · poems 84%
Anthony Munday
c. 13 October 1560–10 August 1633 (~73)
76% affinity
bio 71% · poems 81%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
75% affinity
Shared: play, power
bio 69% · poems 83%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
75% affinity
Shared: play, drama
bio 72% · poems 79%
Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854–30 November 1900 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: power, love
bio 66% · poems 85%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: power, world
bio 65% · poems 86%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 67% · poems 83%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
74% affinity
Shared: pastoral, love
bio 67% · poems 83%
Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1343–25 October 1400 (~57)
74% affinity
Shared: canterbury, world
bio 68% · poems 81%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
74% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 67% · poems 82%