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 John Masefield
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
83% affinity
bio 76% · poems 91%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 74% · poems 90%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: rural, speech
bio 75% · poems 89%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: britain
bio 75% · poems 88%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 79% · poems 83%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
81% affinity
bio 74% · poems 89%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 78% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 88%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 90%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 89%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 89%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 72% · poems 90%