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.

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

Poets whose work rhymes most with William Morris

Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
6 poems analysed
87% affinity
Shared: life
bio 87% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
51 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 85%
Gerald Massey
29 May 1828–29 October 1907 (~79)
3 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: oxford, death, life
bio 72% · poems 84%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 71% · poems 84%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
8 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: power, life
bio 74% · poems 80%
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12 May 1828–9 April 1882 (~54)
5 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: pre-raphaelite brotherhood
bio 73% · poems 81%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: death
bio 71% · poems 83%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: death
bio 72% · poems 82%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
41 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 71% · poems 83%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
93 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: power, death
bio 69% · poems 86%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
8 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 87%
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