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 G. K. Chesterton
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
81% affinity
bio 76% · poems 88%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 89%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 88%
Hilaire Belloc
27 July 1870–16 July 1953 (~83)
81% affinity
bio 77% · poems 85%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 87%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 87%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: world, divine, spiritual
bio 74% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
79% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73% · poems 88%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 84%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%