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 Keats
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
85% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 80% · poems 92%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
85% affinity
Shared: world, beauty, love
bio 79% · poems 92%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
84% affinity
Shared: imagination, world
bio 78% · poems 92%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
84% affinity
Shared: world, nature, beauty
bio 78% · poems 92%
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822 (~30)
84% affinity
Shared: imagination, world, nature
bio 78% · poems 92%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
83% affinity
Shared: london
bio 77% · poems 91%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
83% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 76% · poems 92%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
83% affinity
Shared: london, tuberculosis
bio 77% · poems 90%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
83% affinity
Shared: poems, world, beauty
bio 78% · poems 89%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
83% affinity
Shared: poems
bio 78% · poems 89%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: london, suffering
bio 76% · poems 91%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 76% · poems 90%