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 Dylan Thomas
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
88% affinity
Shared: world
bio 82% · poems 96%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: welsh, life
bio 76% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 75% · poems 91%
T. E. Brown
5 May 1830–29 October 1897 (~67)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 89%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: power, world
bio 74% · poems 91%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 73% · poems 91%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 73% · poems 89%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 89%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 89%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 72% · poems 90%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 91%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 87%