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 R. Williams Parry
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 76%
Thomas Parnell
11 September 1679–24 October 1718 (~39)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
75% affinity
Shared: first world war, landscape
bio 75%
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
75% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 75%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: welsh
bio 75%
William Carlos Williams
17 September 1883–4 March 1963 (~80)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
74% affinity
bio 74%