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 James Elroy Flecker

John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
2 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: marked
bio 74% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
22 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis
bio 73% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 88%
F. S. Flint
19 December 1885–28 February 1960 (~75)
4 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
23 poems analysed
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 88%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
3 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 85%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
5 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 86%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
23 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: oxford, history
bio 72% · poems 86%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
17 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: oxford, world
bio 73% · poems 85%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
4 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: oxford, ship
bio 71% · poems 87%
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