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 Edward Lear
Lewis Carroll
27 January 1832–14 January 1898 (~66)
81% affinity
Shared: nonsense, social
bio 73% · poems 90%
A. A. Milne
18 January 1882–31 January 1956 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 68% · poems 88%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape, world, life
bio 72% · poems 81%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
76% affinity
Shared: illness, world, life
bio 72% · poems 81%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: social, world, life
bio 70% · poems 83%
Ralph Hodgson
9 September 1871–3 November 1962 (~91)
75% affinity
Shared: animals, world, imaginative
bio 70% · poems 81%
Henry Carey
c. 26 August 1687–5 October 1743 (~56)
75% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 69% · poems 83%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
75% affinity
Shared: social, world, life
bio 68% · poems 82%
Philip Arthur Larkin
9 August 1922–2 December 1985 (~63)
74% affinity
Shared: social, world, life
bio 67% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
74% affinity
Shared: scientific, social, world
bio 70% · poems 79%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
74% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 67% · poems 83%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 69% · poems 80%