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 Ford
Thomas Tomkins
1572–9 June 1656 (~84)
83% affinity
Shared: chapel royal, music
bio 82% · poems 85%
John Bartlet
c. 1585–c. 1620 (~35)
83% affinity
Shared: music, songs
bio 80% · poems 86%
Thomas Greaves
c. 1575–c. 1620 (~45)
83% affinity
Shared: music, songs, lute
bio 83%
Robert Jones
c. 1577–c. 1617 (~40)
82% affinity
Shared: music, songs
bio 78% · poems 88%
David Melvill
c. 1544–1614 (~70)
82% affinity
Shared: anonymous poetry, music, songs
bio 82% · poems 83%
Thomas Campion
12 February 1567–1 March 1620 (~53)
81% affinity
Shared: music, songs
bio 80% · poems 81%
Michaell Cavendish
c. 1565–c. 5 July 1628 (~63)
80% affinity
Shared: music, songs
bio 80%
John Ford
17 April 1586–c. 1639 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 86%
William Byrd
c. 1540–4 July 1623 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: music, composer
bio 72% · poems 87%
Francis Pilkington
c. 1565–1638 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: music, anonymous
bio 75% · poems 82%
Thomas Tallis
c. 1505–23 November 1585 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: music
bio 77% · poems 80%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
77% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 77%