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 Thomas Lodge
George Cabot Lodge
10 October 1873–21 August 1909 (~36)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Barnabe Googe
11 June 1540–February 1594 (~54)
74% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 74%
George Turberville
c. 1540–c. 1597 (~57)
73% affinity
Shared: elizabethan age
bio 73%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
72% affinity
bio 72%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Sir Richard Fanshawe
12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Sir Thomas More
7 February 1478–6 July 1535 (~57)
71% affinity
Shared: lincoln's inn
bio 71%
Michael Drayton
1563–December 1631 (~68)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
70% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70%