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 Sir Walter Raleigh
Fulke Greville
3 October 1554–30 September 1628 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: court
bio 72% · poems 86%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 86%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
77% affinity
Shared: court, death
bio 71% · poems 85%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73% · poems 81%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
76% affinity
Shared: edmund spenser, court
bio 72% · poems 82%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: life, power
bio 69% · poems 84%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
76% affinity
Shared: court, death
bio 72% · poems 81%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 81%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: life, power
bio 69% · poems 83%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
75% affinity
bio 73% · poems 78%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
75% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 69% · poems 84%