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 James Mortimer Collins
WIlliam Collins
25 December 1721–12 June 1759 (~38)
85% affinity
bio 85%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: light, love
bio 73% · poems 88%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 74% · poems 87%
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
8 November 1831–24 November 1891 (~60)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 87%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: victorian literature
bio 71% · poems 89%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 84%
Charles Cotton
28 April 1630–16 February 1687 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 73% · poems 85%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
79% affinity
Shared: culture, love
bio 74% · poems 84%