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 Michael Drayton
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
bio 79%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Samuel Daniel
c. 1562–14 October 1619 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: history
bio 78%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: history
bio 78%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 77%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Barnabe Googe
11 June 1540–February 1594 (~54)
75% affinity
bio 75%
George Turberville
c. 1540–c. 1597 (~57)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
75% affinity
Shared: history
bio 75%