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 Philip Sidney
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
82% affinity
Shared: fulke greville, elizabethan court
bio 80% · poems 85%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
82% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 76% · poems 89%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 90%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 88%
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 84%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 71% · poems 86%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 88%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 81%
Henry Constable
1562–October 1613 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: protestant
bio 72% · poems 84%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
77% affinity
Shared: robert dudley
bio 70% · poems 86%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
77% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 67% · poems 89%