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 Allan Cunningham
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 88%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76% · poems 83%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73% · poems 86%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 69% · poems 89%
Alexander Anderson
30 April 1845–11 July 1909 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 71% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: london, songs
bio 70% · poems 88%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
78% affinity
Shared: robert burns, scottish
bio 72% · poems 85%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75% · poems 82%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 84%
Charles Mackay
27 March 1814–24 December 1889 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 73% · poems 83%
John Stuart Blackie
28 July 1809–2 March 1895 (~86)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish, world
bio 68% · poems 87%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: social, wind, life
bio 70% · poems 85%