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 Edmund Spenser
Phineas Fletcher
8 April 1582–13 December 1650 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: the faerie queene
bio 76% · poems 82%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 87%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 87%
Henry Constable
1562–October 1613 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: sir philip sidney
bio 71% · poems 86%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: london, beloved
bio 70% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: london, beauty
bio 70% · poems 87%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
77% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 70% · poems 87%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: london
bio 68% · poems 88%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 70% · poems 86%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
77% affinity
Shared: robert dudley
bio 70% · poems 86%
Sir Richard Fanshawe
12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 83%
Sir John Davies
16 April 1569–8 December 1626 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: colonial ireland
bio 71% · poems 84%