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 John Clare
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
84% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 81% · poems 89%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: social, birds
bio 74% · poems 90%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: rural, romantic, memory
bio 73% · poems 90%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: rural, memory
bio 75% · poems 89%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 73% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, world
bio 73% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social, memory
bio 73% · poems 89%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, world
bio 73% · poems 88%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 73% · poems 87%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
80% affinity
Shared: social, rural
bio 72% · poems 88%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: social, romantic
bio 70% · poems 89%