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 Bernard Barton
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
81% affinity
Shared: social, beauty
bio 75% · poems 87%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 78% · poems 82%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: beauty, life
bio 71% · poems 89%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: charles lamb, social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, divine, spiritual
bio 70% · poems 87%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 70% · poems 87%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
Thomas Flatman
21 February 1635–8 December 1688 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, social
bio 73% · poems 83%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 70% · poems 86%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, social
bio 71% · poems 85%