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 Gerard Manley Hopkins
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
83% affinity
Shared: divine, priest, spiritual
bio 79% · poems 89%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: world, beauty, life
bio 76% · poems 90%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: london, world, beauty
bio 76% · poems 89%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
81% affinity
Shared: london, world, beauty
bio 75% · poems 88%
Robert Bridges
23 October 1844–21 April 1930 (~86)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford, world
bio 78% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: music, world
bio 74% · poems 88%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: divine, spiritual, world
bio 74% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: spiritual, world, beauty
bio 72% · poems 89%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 85%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 73% · poems 87%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: divine, spiritual, life
bio 73% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: oxford, world, beauty
bio 73% · poems 87%