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 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
30 August 1797–1 February 1851 (~54)
87% affinity
Shared: frankenstein, romanticism, lake geneva
bio 84% · poems 90%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
84% affinity
Shared: imagination, romantic, nature
bio 78% · poems 92%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 91%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: power, imagination
bio 73% · poems 91%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: hope, imaginative
bio 74% · poems 90%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 72% · poems 91%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social, imaginative, world
bio 72% · poems 91%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: imagination, world, love
bio 70% · poems 90%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: power, philosophical
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: social, nature
bio 70% · poems 90%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: romanticism, social
bio 72% · poems 88%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
79% affinity
Shared: freedom
bio 71% · poems 87%