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 Lewis Carroll
Edward Lear
12 May 1812–29 January 1888 (~76)
81% affinity
Shared: nonsense
bio 73% · poems 90%
A. A. Milne
18 January 1882–31 January 1956 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 68% · poems 88%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
74% affinity
Shared: childhood, life
bio 67% · poems 83%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
74% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 62% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: life
bio 64% · poems 87%
Charles Williams
20 September 1886–15 May 1945 (~59)
74% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 68% · poems 81%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 62% · poems 87%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
73% affinity
bio 64% · poems 84%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
73% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 64% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
73% affinity
Shared: childhood, life
bio 62% · poems 87%
Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
73% affinity
Shared: childhood, life
bio 64% · poems 84%
Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854–30 November 1900 (~46)
73% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 63% · poems 85%