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 John Milton
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74% · poems 83%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: spiritual
bio 73% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, light
bio 71% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 88%
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 82%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: light, world
bio 70% · poems 85%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
76% affinity
Shared: london, religious
bio 71% · poems 83%
William Blake
28 November 1757–12 August 1827 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: london, lost
bio 72% · poems 82%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
76% affinity
Shared: london, religious
bio 71% · poems 82%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 68% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
75% affinity
Shared: london, world
bio 68% · poems 84%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: london, blindness, world
bio 68% · poems 84%