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 John Drinkwater
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
81% affinity
Shared: poems, theatre
bio 74% · poems 89%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 71% · poems 91%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: georgian poetry, poems
bio 71% · poems 91%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
bio 71% · poems 90%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 75% · poems 85%
Ford Madox Hueffer
17 December 1873–26 June 1939 (~66)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 89%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
bio 69% · poems 92%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 88%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 90%