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 Francis Ledwidge
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: rural, world
bio 75% · poems 90%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 74% · poems 91%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
81% affinity
Shared: easter rising, irish
bio 75% · poems 89%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
81% affinity
Shared: military, world
bio 76% · poems 88%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 89%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 73% · poems 90%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
81% affinity
Shared: easter rising, irish
bio 74% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 72% · poems 91%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 88%
Richard Aldington
8 July 1892–27 July 1962 (~70)
80% affinity
Shared: world war i
bio 73% · poems 88%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%