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 Gerald Massey
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
William Morris
24 March 1834–3 October 1896 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 87%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 83%
Charles Mackay
27 March 1814–24 December 1889 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 83%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 83%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 84%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73% · poems 82%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 84%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73% · poems 83%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 82%