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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Watcyn Wyn

Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
93 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: life, welsh, wales
bio 73% · poems 83%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
6 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: life, welsh, education
bio 72% · poems 82%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
23 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 86%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: heaven, world, divine
bio 70% · poems 83%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
51 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 86%
Robert Stephen Hawker
3 December 1803–15 August 1875 (~72)
3 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: throughout
bio 69% · poems 82%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
8 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 67% · poems 84%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
2 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 81%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
3 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 82%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: life, social
bio 66% · poems 84%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
4 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 67% · poems 83%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
22 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 66% · poems 84%
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