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 Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
81% affinity
bio 74% · poems 89%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 90%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 90%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, beauty
bio 71% · poems 91%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: diplomatic, desire
bio 75% · poems 86%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 73% · poems 89%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 89%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
80% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 77% · poems 83%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 91%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: imperial
bio 75% · poems 85%