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 William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
82% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 89%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75% · poems 85%
John Stuart Blackie
28 July 1809–2 March 1895 (~86)
79% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, german romanticism, scottish
bio 76% · poems 81%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
78% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 74% · poems 82%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
bio 69% · poems 88%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 87%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73% · poems 83%
William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 71% · poems 85%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: domestic
bio 68% · poems 87%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 86%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%