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 William Byrd
Thomas Bateson
c. 1575–March 1630 (~55)
83% affinity
Shared: music, madrigals
bio 79% · poems 87%
Orlando Gibbons
25 December 1583–5 June 1625 (~42)
82% affinity
Shared: music, composer
bio 82%
John Ward
8 September 1571–1638 (~67)
81% affinity
Shared: music, madrigals
bio 78% · poems 84%
Thomas Vautor
c. 1592–1619 (~27)
80% affinity
Shared: music, composer
bio 80%
Thomas Morley
c. 1557–October 1602 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: music, madrigals
bio 80% · poems 80%
David Melvill
c. 1544–1614 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: music, composer
bio 78% · poems 81%
Francis Pilkington
c. 1565–1638 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: queen elizabeth i, music
bio 79% · poems 79%
Thomas Ford
c. 1580–November 1648 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: music
bio 72% · poems 87%
Thomas Tomkins
1572–9 June 1656 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: english renaissance, music
bio 74% · poems 84%
Martin Peerson
c. 1571–16 January 1651 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: thomas tallis, music
bio 78%
Thomas Weelkes
25 October 1576–November 1623 (~47)
78% affinity
Shared: music, madrigals
bio 78%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%