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 Alexander Pope
William Broome
30 April 1689–16 November 1745 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: elijah fenton
bio 80%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: john dryden
bio 75% · poems 85%
Matthew Prior
c. July 1664–18 September 1721 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 77% · poems 82%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 84%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 85%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
Thomas Parnell
11 September 1679–24 October 1718 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: scriblerus club
bio 77% · poems 81%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: heroic
bio 77% · poems 81%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 85%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: social, catholic
bio 74% · poems 85%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: soul
bio 74% · poems 82%