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 Alexander Anderson
Charles Murray
27 September 1864–12 April 1941 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72% · poems 87%
William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72% · poems 87%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish, social
bio 71% · poems 86%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 69% · poems 88%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish, social
bio 69% · poems 87%
T. E. Brown
5 May 1830–29 October 1897 (~67)
76% affinity
bio 68% · poems 86%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish, industrial
bio 72% · poems 82%
Thomas Campbell
27 July 1777–15 June 1844 (~67)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 83%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
76% affinity
bio 67% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 86%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish, social
bio 67% · poems 85%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
75% affinity
bio 66% · poems 87%