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 Gray
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
86% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 86%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 78% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: death, history
bio 79% · poems 84%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
81% affinity
Shared: romantic, death
bio 77% · poems 86%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
81% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 76% · poems 87%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
80% affinity
Shared: learning
bio 77% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, life, rural
bio 77% · poems 85%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: death
bio 73% · poems 87%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: death, dead
bio 74% · poems 86%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
79% affinity
Shared: horace walpole, social
bio 74% · poems 85%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 74% · poems 85%