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 William Whiting
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
Isaac Watts
17 July 1674–25 November 1748 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: hymn, religious
bio 73%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Thomas Tallis
c. 1505–23 November 1585 (~80)
73% affinity
Shared: prayer
bio 73%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
72% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 72%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
71% affinity
Shared: religious, prayer, divine
bio 71%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
71% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 71%
Charles Wesley
18 December 1707–29 March 1788 (~81)
71% affinity
Shared: hymn, religious, divine
bio 71%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
71% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 71%