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 Hardy
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
85% affinity
Shared: rural, life
bio 78% · poems 93%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 93%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
82% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 73% · poems 94%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: rural, life, memory
bio 75% · poems 91%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 73% · poems 91%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
81% affinity
bio 72% · poems 92%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: suffering
bio 71% · poems 93%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
81% affinity
Shared: rural, social
bio 76% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 71% · poems 92%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 91%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 92%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 91%