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 David Melvill
Thomas Greaves
c. 1575–c. 1620 (~45)
86% affinity
Shared: music, anonymous
bio 86%
Michaell Cavendish
c. 1565–c. 5 July 1628 (~63)
84% affinity
Shared: music, anonymous
bio 84%
Thomas Tomkins
1572–9 June 1656 (~84)
83% affinity
Shared: music, composer
bio 83% · poems 82%
John Bartlet
c. 1585–c. 1620 (~35)
83% affinity
Shared: music
bio 83% · poems 82%
Thomas Ford
c. 1580–November 1648 (~68)
82% affinity
Shared: anonymous poetry, music, anonymous
bio 82% · poems 83%
John Wilbye
7 March 1574–September 1638 (~64)
81% affinity
Shared: music, harmonic
bio 81%
Thomas Tallis
c. 1505–23 November 1585 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: music
bio 81% · poems 81%
William Barley
c. 1565–1614 (~49)
81% affinity
Shared: music, anonymous
bio 81%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
81% affinity
bio 81%
Tobias Hume
c. 1579–16 April 1645 (~66)
80% affinity
Shared: music, composer, songs
bio 80%
Robert Jones
c. 1577–c. 1617 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: music, anonymous, composer
bio 79% · poems 82%
Francis Pilkington
c. 1565–1638 (~73)
80% affinity
Shared: music, anonymous
bio 80% · poems 80%