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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
87% affinity
Shared: william wordsworth, frost at midnight
bio 80% · poems 95%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
87% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 80% · poems 94%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
84% affinity
Shared: imagination, romantic
bio 78% · poems 92%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
84% affinity
bio 76% · poems 94%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 75% · poems 91%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
82% affinity
Shared: religious, world
bio 75% · poems 90%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
82% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76% · poems 89%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 91%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 76% · poems 89%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: imagination, world
bio 74% · poems 90%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 73% · poems 92%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
81% affinity
Shared: charles lamb, power, romantic
bio 74% · poems 91%