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 Anonymous
Francis James Child
1 February 1825–11 September 1896 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: barbara allen, the twa sisters
bio 71% · poems 90%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: songs
bio 73% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 70% · poems 87%
Francis Pilkington
c. 1565–1638 (~73)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
77% affinity
bio 66% · poems 90%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: death, world
bio 69% · poems 86%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 88%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
Shared: death
bio 70% · poems 84%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
76% affinity
bio 66% · poems 89%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
76% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 66% · poems 89%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 66% · poems 88%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
76% affinity
Shared: death, world
bio 66% · poems 88%