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 Soutar
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 90%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 90%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 87%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 86%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 88%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%
Charles Murray
27 September 1864–12 April 1941 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: hugh macdiarmid, scottish
bio 73% · poems 85%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world, beauty
bio 70% · poems 89%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 88%
Alexander Anderson
30 April 1845–11 July 1909 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72% · poems 87%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 88%