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 Campion
Thomas Ford
c. 1580–November 1648 (~68)
81% affinity
Shared: music, songs, lute
bio 80% · poems 81%
Thomas Greaves
c. 1575–c. 1620 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: music, songs, lute
bio 81%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
81% affinity
bio 81%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: songs, london
bio 80%
Michaell Cavendish
c. 1565–c. 5 July 1628 (~63)
80% affinity
Shared: music, songs, lute
bio 80%
John Bartlet
c. 1585–c. 1620 (~35)
79% affinity
Shared: a booke of ayres, music, songs
bio 82% · poems 76%
David Melvill
c. 1544–1614 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: music, songs
bio 80% · poems 78%
William Barley
c. 1565–1614 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: music, composer, london
bio 79%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: beloved, desire, love
bio 76% · poems 83%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: london, beauty, love
bio 74% · poems 83%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: london, beauty, desire
bio 73% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: music, beauty
bio 76% · poems 81%