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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Stephen Phillips

Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
85% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 79% · poems 92%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 74% · poems 91%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: oxford, poems
bio 75% · poems 91%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
22 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: poems, beauty
bio 76% · poems 89%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
23 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 75% · poems 90%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
19 poems analysed
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 89%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
5 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: death
bio 74% · poems 89%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
81% affinity
bio 72% · poems 91%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
2 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 75% · poems 89%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: beauty, memory
bio 73% · poems 90%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
25 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: gave, beauty
bio 73% · poems 90%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
5 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: poems, desire
bio 72% · poems 91%
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