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 David Gray
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
86% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 86%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
82% affinity
bio 82%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
bio 78%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
77% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis
bio 77%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 77%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, romantic
bio 77%
Michael Bruce
27 March 1746–5 July 1767 (~21)
77% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, romantic
bio 77%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: bird, romantic
bio 77%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 76%