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 George Herbert
Edward Herbert
3 March 1583–20 August 1648 (~65)
85% affinity
Shared: john donne, religious
bio 85%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
84% affinity
Shared: church, religious, prayer
bio 78% · poems 90%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
83% affinity
Shared: priest, spiritual, soul
bio 79% · poems 88%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: the temple, religious, devotional
bio 77% · poems 87%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: spiritual, soul, love
bio 78% · poems 85%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, priest, spiritual
bio 75% · poems 87%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 86%
Phineas Fletcher
8 April 1582–13 December 1650 (~68)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, parish, devotional
bio 75% · poems 86%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: love, world, death
bio 74% · poems 87%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: church, religious, parish
bio 80%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: love, self, world
bio 74% · poems 86%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: love, self
bio 74% · poems 86%