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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Theodore Tilton

Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 79% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 74% · poems 85%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
69 poems analysed
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 87%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
4 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 72% · poems 86%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
8 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 87%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
22 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 73% · poems 84%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
8 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 73% · poems 85%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 73% · poems 84%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
93 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 87%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
26 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 85%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 72% · poems 84%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
8 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: death
bio 72% · poems 84%
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