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 Robert Stephen Hawker
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: cornwall
bio 72% · poems 87%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: catholic, london
bio 74% · poems 83%
T. E. Brown
5 May 1830–29 October 1897 (~67)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 72% · poems 84%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 81%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: london
bio 71% · poems 85%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: church, london
bio 72% · poems 83%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: faith
bio 71% · poems 84%
Stephen Hawes
c. 1474–c. 1523 (~49)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Thomas Edwards Hankinson
19 June 1805–6 October 1843 (~38)
77% affinity
Shared: church, divine
bio 76% · poems 78%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: tradition
bio 71% · poems 84%