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 Thomas Edwards Hankinson
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, biblical
bio 73% · poems 84%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 73% · poems 83%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 84%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, church
bio 71% · poems 86%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73% · poems 82%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: world, life, spiritual
bio 71% · poems 85%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 85%
Robert Stephen Hawker
3 December 1803–15 August 1875 (~72)
77% affinity
Shared: church, divine
bio 76% · poems 78%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72% · poems 82%