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 Thomas Godfrey
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: colonial
bio 78%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 77%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 77%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: colonial
bio 77%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
76% affinity
Shared: court
bio 76%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
76% affinity
bio 76%
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
76% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, romantic
bio 76%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
76% affinity
bio 76%