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 Sir Edward Dyer
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
83% affinity
Shared: court
bio 80% · poems 86%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
83% affinity
Shared: love
bio 79% · poems 87%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
82% affinity
Shared: elizabethan court, fulke greville
bio 80% · poems 85%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 91%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
81% affinity
Shared: somerset, oxford
bio 82% · poems 79%
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
8 November 1831–24 November 1891 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: diplomatic, death
bio 75% · poems 86%
Michael Drayton
1563–December 1631 (~68)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: court, love
bio 76% · poems 85%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: court, culture
bio 75% · poems 86%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: love, self
bio 76% · poems 84%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: court, love
bio 75% · poems 85%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: oxford, love
bio 74% · poems 85%