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 Alfred Douglas
Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854–30 November 1900 (~46)
82% affinity
bio 81% · poems 84%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 73% · poems 86%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 84%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: french symbolism, desire
bio 74% · poems 84%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 83%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: social, religious
bio 70% · poems 85%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 83%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
76% affinity
Shared: social, religious
bio 72% · poems 82%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
76% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 69% · poems 86%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
76% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 71% · poems 83%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 83%