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 Samuel Daniel
Michael Drayton
1563–December 1631 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: history
bio 78%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: somerset
bio 77%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
75% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 75%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Richard Barnefield
29 June 1574–1627 (~53)
73% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
73% affinity
Shared: somerset
bio 73%
Sir John Davies
16 April 1569–8 December 1626 (~57)
73% affinity
Shared: edmund spenser, william shakespeare
bio 73%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
72% affinity
Shared: edmund spenser
bio 72%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
72% affinity
bio 72%