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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with John Banister Tabb

Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
1 poem analysed
74% affinity
Shared: religious, catholic
bio 74%
Bernard Barton
31 January 1784–19 February 1849 (~65)
3 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: poems, religious
bio 74%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
2 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: lyrics
bio 72%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
2 September 1895–3 February 1919 (~24)
2 poems analysed
72% affinity
bio 72%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
3 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
71% affinity
bio 71%
Theodore Tilton
2 October 1835–29 May 1907 (~72)
2 poems analysed
71% affinity
bio 71%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
1 poem analysed
71% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 71%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
3 poems analysed
71% affinity
bio 71%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
2 poems analysed
71% affinity
bio 71%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
1 poem analysed
71% affinity
bio 71%
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