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 Sharp
Fiona Macleod
12 September 1855–12 December 1905 (~50)
86% affinity
Shared: celtic revival, name
bio 87% · poems 84%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 69% · poems 85%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 66% · poems 88%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: dante gabriel rossetti, celtic revival
bio 69% · poems 84%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
76% affinity
bio 69% · poems 84%
F. S. Flint
19 December 1885–28 February 1960 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 66% · poems 87%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
75% affinity
Shared: imaginative
bio 72% · poems 79%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 66% · poems 86%
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
75% affinity
bio 72% · poems 79%
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
17 August 1840–10 September 1922 (~82)
75% affinity
Shared: travel
bio 72% · poems 79%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
75% affinity
Shared: beauty, world
bio 67% · poems 84%