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 Richard Aldington
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11 November 1836–19 March 1907 (~71)
82% affinity
bio 81% · poems 82%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 89%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: world war i
bio 73% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Siegfried Sassoon
8 September 1886–1 September 1967 (~81)
79% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 71% · poems 90%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 90%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 86%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 74% · poems 85%
Edward Shanks
11 June 1892–4 May 1953 (~61)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
79% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 73% · poems 86%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: ezra pound
bio 72% · poems 86%