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 Charles Mackay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
25 October 1800–28 December 1859 (~59)
81% affinity
bio 79% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 87%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 87%
Gerald Massey
29 May 1828–29 October 1907 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 83%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 87%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: life, river
bio 72% · poems 85%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 88%