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 Hilaire Belloc
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
81% affinity
bio 77% · poems 85%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 67% · poems 86%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
76% affinity
bio 69% · poems 83%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
75% affinity
Shared: comic verse
bio 68% · poems 85%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 86%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 84%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 83%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
75% affinity
Shared: balliol college
bio 69% · poems 83%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
75% affinity
bio 69% · poems 82%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 82%
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
17 August 1840–10 September 1922 (~82)
75% affinity
Shared: sussex
bio 68% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 84%