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.

Thomas Tallis

c. 1505–23 November 1585 (~80)

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Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Thomas Tallis

1572–9 June 1656 (~84)

2 poems analysed

Shared: william byrd, music

c. 1544–1614 (~70)

2 poems analysed

c. 1575–c. 1620 (~45)

1 poem analysed

c. 1585–c. 1620 (~35)

1 poem analysed

12 February 1567–1 March 1620 (~53)

2 poems analysed

Michaell Cavendish

c. 1565–c. 5 July 1628 (~63)

1 poem analysed

c. 1580–November 1648 (~68)

2 poems analysed

c. 1565–1614 (~49)

1 poem analysed

c. 1577–c. 1617 (~40)

2 poems analysed

c. 1579–16 April 1645 (~66)

1 poem analysed

c. 1563–20 February 1626 (~63)

1 poem analysed

Francis Davison

c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)

1 poem analysed