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 Walter de la Mare
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 79% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: landscape, life
bio 73% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: childhood, life, world
bio 72% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: imaginative, life
bio 73% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 70% · poems 86%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 70% · poems 86%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 84%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: imaginative, supernatural
bio 73% · poems 82%
Harold Monro
14 March 1879–16 March 1932 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 85%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
77% affinity
Shared: children's literature, landscape
bio 68% · poems 88%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 84%