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 Donne
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: london, love
bio 74% · poems 91%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
82% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74% · poems 91%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: social, erotic
bio 73% · poems 90%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: london, love, death
bio 73% · poems 88%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 71% · poems 90%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: london, love
bio 71% · poems 89%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 73% · poems 88%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
79% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 70% · poems 91%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: london, catholic, self
bio 73% · poems 86%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: religious, love
bio 74% · poems 86%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
79% affinity
Shared: religious, church
bio 74% · poems 86%