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 Robert Williams Buchanan
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 85%
Bernard Barton
31 January 1784–19 February 1849 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 78% · poems 82%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 84%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 83%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: poverty
bio 76% · poems 81%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 81%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 81%
Edward Shanks
11 June 1892–4 May 1953 (~61)
78% affinity
Shared: london, world
bio 76% · poems 80%
James Thomson
23 November 1834–3 June 1882 (~48)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 78%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 84%