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 Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas Hoccleve
c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: london, hundred years' war
bio 79%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
78% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 74% · poems 83%
Stephen Hawes
c. 1474–c. 1523 (~49)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
75% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70% · poems 82%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 81%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 79%
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
75% affinity
Shared: hundred years' war
bio 75%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 81%
Richard Tottel
c. 1528–2 July 1593 (~65)
74% affinity
bio 69% · poems 81%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
74% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 68% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 68% · poems 81%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 83%