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 Arthur Hugh Clough
John Clare
13 July 1793–20 May 1864 (~71)
84% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 81% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
84% affinity
Shared: social
bio 79% · poems 89%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
83% affinity
Shared: thomas arnold
bio 77% · poems 91%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
82% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76% · poems 89%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 89%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 89%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford, life, self
bio 75% · poems 89%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 75% · poems 89%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
81% affinity
Shared: social, religious
bio 75% · poems 88%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 75% · poems 88%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 89%