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 John Gillespie Magee Jr.
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John McCrae
30 November 1872–28 January 1918 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: military
bio 74%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
73% affinity
Shared: entered
bio 73%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
73% affinity
bio 73%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Charles Wolfe
14 December 1791–21 February 1823 (~32)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%