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 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: first world war, speech
bio 77% · poems 87%
Ralph Hodgson
9 September 1871–3 November 1962 (~91)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 83%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
79% affinity
Shared: social, speech
bio 76% · poems 83%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 84%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 74% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 87%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 84%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
78% affinity
Shared: social, class
bio 72% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 86%