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 Alfred Austin
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
84% affinity
bio 79% · poems 91%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
84% affinity
Shared: poet laureate
bio 83% · poems 84%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: garden
bio 75% · poems 89%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
81% affinity
bio 73% · poems 90%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 72% · poems 90%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 90%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 77% · poems 84%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 85%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
bio 71% · poems 91%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%