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 Charles Murray
Violet Jacob
1 September 1863–9 September 1946 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: hugh macdiarmid, rural, scottish
bio 73% · poems 87%
William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: hugh macdiarmid, scottish
bio 73% · poems 85%
Alexander Anderson
30 April 1845–11 July 1909 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72% · poems 87%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish, life
bio 70% · poems 88%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
78% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 70% · poems 88%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 86%
Charles Mackay
27 March 1814–24 December 1889 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: world, life, river
bio 69% · poems 87%
Allan Ramsay
c. 15 October 1684–7 January 1758 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: rural, scottish
bio 72% · poems 84%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 69% · poems 87%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 70% · poems 86%
Frederic William Moorman
8 September 1872–8 September 1919 (~47)
77% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 70% · poems 85%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish, beloved
bio 70% · poems 84%