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 Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
13 November 1850–3 December 1894 (~44)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 81%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 82%
Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861–7 August 1941 (~80)
74% affinity
Shared: india
bio 68% · poems 81%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
74% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 64% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
73% affinity
Shared: life, power
bio 66% · poems 83%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
73% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 63% · poems 85%
Banjo Paterson
17 February 1864–5 February 1941 (~77)
73% affinity
Shared: life
bio 64% · poems 84%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
72% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 65% · poems 82%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: self
bio 63% · poems 84%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
72% affinity
bio 62% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
72% affinity
Shared: life
bio 62% · poems 84%
Stephen Crane
1 November 1871–5 June 1900 (~29)
72% affinity
Shared: soldiers
bio 63% · poems 83%