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 William Canton
William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943 (~45)
77% affinity
bio 69% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: childhood, nature, world
bio 66% · poems 88%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
75% affinity
Shared: childhood, world
bio 69% · poems 83%
T. E. Brown
5 May 1830–29 October 1897 (~67)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 84%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: world, spiritual
bio 68% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
74% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 63% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
74% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 65% · poems 86%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
74% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 67% · poems 82%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
74% affinity
bio 66% · poems 84%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
74% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 63% · poems 88%
A. A. Milne
18 January 1882–31 January 1956 (~74)
74% affinity
Shared: childhood, world
bio 68% · poems 81%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
74% affinity
Shared: world
bio 61% · poems 89%