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 Burns
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
85% affinity
Shared: scottish, social
bio 82% · poems 88%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
81% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 81%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
81% affinity
Shared: scottish, social
bio 78% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 74% · poems 89%
Allan Ramsay
c. 15 October 1684–7 January 1758 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish, songs
bio 77% · poems 85%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 90%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 91%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
80% affinity
Shared: social, songs
bio 72% · poems 89%
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
21 June 1813–4 August 1865 (~52)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75% · poems 85%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73% · poems 87%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 71% · poems 89%