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 Fulke Greville
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
81% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 77% · poems 85%
Sir Walter Raleigh
c. 1554–29 October 1618 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: court
bio 72% · poems 86%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
78% affinity
bio 76% · poems 81%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72% · poems 85%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 81%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 85%
Edmund William Gosse
21 September 1849–16 May 1928 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72% · poems 82%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: court
bio 74% · poems 80%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, soul
bio 69% · poems 86%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: philosophical, religious
bio 73% · poems 80%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
76% affinity
Shared: battle of zutphen
bio 75% · poems 77%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
76% affinity
Shared: soul, life
bio 69% · poems 85%