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 George Peele
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 86%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
79% affinity
Shared: oxford, love
bio 74% · poems 84%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: broadgates hall, oxford
bio 76% · poems 81%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 73% · poems 84%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 85%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: oxford, drama
bio 76% · poems 79%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: desire, love
bio 71% · poems 84%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 81%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: love, power
bio 71% · poems 84%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: london, contemporaries
bio 71% · poems 83%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: beauty, love
bio 70% · poems 85%
Robert Greene
c. 11 July 1558–3 September 1592 (~34)
76% affinity
Shared: london
bio 76%