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 Schwenck Gilbert
Henry Carey
c. 26 August 1687–5 October 1743 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: music
bio 65% · poems 83%
Thomas d'Urfey
c. 1653–26 February 1723 (~70)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 77%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
69% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 63% · poems 77%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
69% affinity
Shared: social
bio 59% · poems 81%
John Gay
30 June 1685–4 December 1732 (~47)
69% affinity
Shared: social, opera
bio 69%
Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854–30 November 1900 (~46)
69% affinity
Shared: social
bio 59% · poems 80%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
68% affinity
Shared: social
bio 61% · poems 77%
Lewis Carroll
27 January 1832–14 January 1898 (~66)
68% affinity
Shared: social
bio 53% · poems 86%
Thomas Morley
c. 1557–October 1602 (~45)
68% affinity
Shared: music
bio 59% · poems 78%
J.M. Synge
16 April 1871–24 March 1909 (~38)
68% affinity
Shared: social
bio 57% · poems 80%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
68% affinity
Shared: london
bio 57% · poems 81%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
67% affinity
Shared: social
bio 59% · poems 78%